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What will a man gain by winning the whole world, at the cost of his true self?
A scientific or technical study always consists of the following three steps:1. One decides the objective.2. One considers the method.3. One evaluates the method in ...
Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied.
We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting ...
I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived ...
We will maintain heading until he's committed, then I want a hardskew-turn to starboard. As hard as you can make it, Chief. I want our ...
Rose once told me "If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking."Adrian Ivashkov to Sydney Sage
Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.
We obviously can't compete with the big clubs trying to sign world class stars, but we've already identified some very good players and we'll see ...
The Mother of Sorrows is my confidante, my teacher, my counselor, and my powerful advocate.
As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!
I am passionate about young women and advocating for them.
If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.
If you keep doing what you're doing, you'll keep getting what you're getting." Ziglar
I shot a Metallica video in Hollywood, and there were, like, 100 people on set. There was even a guy there to put antiseptic gel ...
You want to hear a riddle, you say? I know a very good one. It begins, why is a raven like a writing desk?'She lifted ...
I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.
I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.
Travis smiled. So you wanted to be here with me. I think I just fell in love with you all over again.
Eradication of this unquenchable shrub [tamarisk] will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and a ...
Your light will guide me through the darkness, your love will forever be my home.
The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve.
I think of scientific veracity as an idea from the past - the scientists say it is so, the photo is proof. Even the authoritative ...
She's probably ovaries-deep in a carton of Ben and Jerry's right now while Mumford & Sons plays in the background.
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones.
Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying ...
Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.
Humility, as we all know, is one of those virtues that is never gained by seeking it. The more we pursue it the more distant ...
To wait, biblically speaking, is not to assume the worst, worry, make demands, or take control. Nor is waiting doing nothing. It is a sustained ...
I've had the good fortune of teaching and preaching across much of the globe, while also struggling to make sense of my experience in my ...
I'm a sexually liberated woman that earned that liberation. I am very proud of the fact that I feel comfortable in certain forums discussing sex.
Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.
The language of feelings is not linear, logical, and verbal like the language of thinking.
Music, I find, gets you out of a trap [when screenwriting], because it speaks to your emotions directly, it's an abstract thing, it's not concerned ...
But in all His relationships, God reaches for man. Reaches for you who have fallen and scraped your heart raw, for you who feel the ...
Take a risk. Take a fucking risk. If you keep playing it safe, you'll never know who you are -Josh
No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us
Your heart is yours to give, it is no ones to take. Not a queen. Not a prince. No one.
There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't ...
For all the opportunities that arise from the Fourth Industrial Revolution - and there are many - it does not come without risks. Perhaps one ...
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, ...
I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have ...
There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.[In a letter to Frederick the Great]
If Harry had been less noble, less fair-minded, Cedric would have lived. It is a very classic example of how noble intentions often lead to ...
I'm a jeans person; I love Abercrombie. My shoe collection is composed mostly of Chucks and a few pairs of girly ones.
What kind of wonderful God is this who reaches down into the lives of people, picks them up, grants them faith, and changes them!
The feelings he aroused in her were like a complete realignment of her being, right down to the molecular level.
There was an audible gasp, like everyone had been sucker-punched, and the sound reverberated through the hall like he'd just announced that not only was ...
And for the first time in their existence, their mean, unhappy lives became happy and meaningful because of one simple phrase ... LOVE.
Follow your heart - for the heart is wise and will always lead you toward your destiny.
I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff ...
International peace negotiations need more value creation than value claiming. The more we create value for peace and development, the easier it is going to ...
Suddenly, the ice became liquid and her veins filled with the cold, condensing fluid. Her heartbeat intensified as the poor muscle attempted to pump the ...
Writing:It starts at the keyboard,and it ends at the far corners of the universe. Paako
Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings.
You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.
I want everything to be explained to me or nothing. And the reason is impotent when it hears this cry from the heart. The mind ...
I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.
Damn. That was stupid, wasn't it? We nearly got killed over ice cream.
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which ... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
And the media had loved speculating about how much
What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you find the life ...
Romance isn't in my repertoire, Eva. But a thousand ways to make you come are. Let me show you.
Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.
She'd known instinctively that they'd been building toward something, and she was only glad it had been the same 'something' she wanted. And maybe she ...
The writer:a spy sent into life by the forces of death. His main objective is to get the information across the border, back into death. ...
The mercury light doesn't show red. It makes the blood in your skin look blue-black. But see how splendidly it brings out the green in ...
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
I think NATO is a Cold War product. I think NATO historically should have shut up shop in 1990 along with the Warsaw Pact; unfortunately, ...
The whole Silicon Valley is oxymoronic - geeky and rich and hip.
See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also.
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. ...
It has become fashionable to rail against government intervention in the economy, and the FHA is a favorite example by those trying to show the ...
And yet he held his tongue, wanting his farewell with Marina to be peaceable, not out of any magnanimity, but so that after Tor ruined ...
People who accomplish great things work toward their objectives every day.
Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.
Keep encouraging one another with affectionate love.
I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I ...
I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.
When you change the world, the world forgets who did it, because the one doing it has now blended with his own result.
The right may not always be good, and the good may not always be right.
How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of Ovid, who, with ...
I have before seen other countries, in the same manner, give themselves to you when you are about to leave them ...
When I deal with my struggles in my songs, I feel like most people are going to identify with my struggles because they are essentially ...
If it weren't for the fact that he'd been flat on his back in a full body cast, then recovering, he probably would be glad ...
Suki is the nation's ideal girlfriend, a woman for whom bubbliness is a way of life, verging on a disorder.
Leaders don't inflict pain - they share pain.
I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.
The death penalty, and the sooner the better.
Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, ...
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will ...
This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause.
Your love is not really love until you waste it, a kiss is never a kiss until you taste it..
I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.
The moment sex ceases to be a servant it becomes a tyrant.
If you tell one lie, you have to tell more to keep the first lie alive. A story is a good lie with an exit ...