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I can't live without magic

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

Sometimes bullying is necessary.

There was a mountain of grief to be climbed, and no amount of talk would help me up it.

A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.

People under thirty haven't yet stopped believing that something wonderful can suddenly happen.

Sophronia and Dimity took a vacant love seat at the front, Sophronia dislodging a large, fluffy cat with a scrunched-up face. The cat gave her ...

Falling in love can be likened to someone, falling from a high building. The possible result will be unconsciousness if not death. Take it that, ...

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

If you can, you will quickly find that the greatest rate of return you will earn is on your own personal spending. Being a smart ...

I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American.

As long as I've known her, she's seen the very best version of me, even when I didn't believe that guy existed.

Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening.

Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her ...

With leadership succession, families tend to focus on picking the next CEO. Families really need multiple leaders at all levels in their families and family ...

Akiva felt the tilt of the world trying to tip him forward: to be nearer to hernearer and touchingas though that were the only state ...

The music plays ... and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.

Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.

You must never stop being whimsical.

How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.

Every record that you do man, is sooo different in every way.

Too bad you need both hands for crawling," I said. "We could use some sunshine in here.""Next time, I'll be sure to ask the sprites ...

Muttered. "Your husband

Half the f-f-family's in the Order, it'll b-b-be a miracle if we all come through this. . . . and

Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.

It is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to ...

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to ...

Good taste is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor ...

In the department of--but it is better not to mention the department. There is nothing more irritable than departments, regiments, courts of justice, and, in ...

Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.

No man can resolve himself into Heaven.

Everybody keeps saying be satisfied with Jesus's love, and he will give us our daily bread. I keep waiting, but we never get any bread, ...

Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from ...

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner ...

This could but have happened once,- And we missed it, lost it forever.

In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand ...

We always have more ideas than we can fund.

She chose a bottle of sauvignon blanc from the kitchen rack and uncorked it. "These are trying times. There have been others, and there will ...

Nick retreated, afraid to admit he couldn't handle it in front of a bunch

We're not making mistakes. We're making experiences.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time" ...

Shadow looked at the corpse of the baby deer. He decided that if he were a real woodsman, he would slice off a steak and ...

I love working with horses. People say you shouldn't work with animals and children; that's wrong. You must only work with children, because you only ...

It's like my old Aunt Joan always used to say: if you're going to end up fighting monsters, Pirate Captain, try to stick to ventriloquist's ...

Eyes like streams of melting snow, she said, and it was all I could do not to roll my melting snow eyes.

Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.

There are certain areas that you can move to on the earth that will empower you and there are certain areas that can drain you.

This Dewdrop World is a beautiful, courageous, intimate film about love and loss. It may also be the deepest meditation on climate change that I've ...

I have always been sure that if England were ever occupied its people would find the organization of underground cells an almost effortless means of ...

I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.

The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances, but because all ...

Friends for life?Why? How long have I got?

There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's more ...

8Blessed are a the pure in heart, for b they shall see God.

Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.

You have the ability to choose your thoughts,to control your emotions,and to determine your actions.Thus you decide your fate.

It's so obviously bogus, no one will look for a second layer of, er, bogusity.

First off, I think nudity is taken differently in America, though they did make a fuss in England, too.

A company author bombs from the sky like the Air Force. A self-published author wins the battle by foot.

My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because ...

As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the ...

The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we ...

Homeopathy has been of tremendous value in reversing diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, bronchial asthma, epilepsy, skin eruptions, allergic conditions, mental or emotional disorders, especially ...

Everybody has a dream, and everybody knows people who have a dream that they don't want to share with anybody because they're too embarrassed to ...

The hardest thing about my job isn't the snake bites or the crocodiles, it's being away from my children. I have a really religious satellite ...

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain ...

In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.

If I had a ringtone, it would probably be Neil Diamond.

I'm just enjoying playing baseball in the major leagues.

If you believe in a dream and have the courage to try, anything is possible

Man blinked. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave ...

He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out ...

Personal finance is a means to an end - living a rich and fulfilling life. It is not hard. It is not complicated. I write ...

The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, ...

My brother is an electrical engineer and went to computer science grad school at Stanford, and he'd tell me stories about the happy hours he'd ...

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

Don't feel bad - if your iPod is full of music made by nice, well-adjusted people, it's probably also full of terrible, boring music.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

Of course you have. Because when you're on the bottom, your only choice is to blame the top.

If I make the lashes darkAnd the eyes more brightAnd the lips more scarlet,Or ask if all be rightFrom mirror after mirror,No vanity's displayed:I'm looking ...

If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous ...

You're perfectly capable of learning. You mustn't listen to people who don't know you. Listen to what you know, yourself.

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire.

My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really ...

More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.

Look at the truth from how it stands, not where it comes from. The truth is still the truth no matter whether it is spoken ...

Growing up, I would say, when we were racing go-karts back in the day, it was always our uncle. We were always looking up to ...

What is your greatest regret?Not staying in better touch with people who truly mattered to me before they died unexpectedly.

Creativity is a state of mind, a way of being, and it comes from a sacred place within.

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more ...

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents ...

Be guided by your heart.

Every man possesses the Buddha-nature. Do not demean yourselves.

I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first ...

I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts, and when it is represented ...

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

I feel like I've survived so much, and been through so much. And sometimes I miss the innocence of those times. Life was different. New ...

Let me into the darkness again.

She was daily surprised by the things he knew and the things he did not know; both, at the time, added to his attraction.