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The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job ... The passion for baseball is always ...

Newness of life: repent heart, humble soul

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

We are not social workers. We are contemplatives in the heart of the world.

I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. Insisting on this story was a form of mind control, ...

Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

These days, students struggle with conversation. What makes sense is to engage them in it. The more you think about educational technology, with all its ...

When you set a goal, you have a responsibility to yourself to see it through. No matter how impossible it may seem, resolve to accomplish ...

The gods of the Greeks were like helpless children compared to humankind today and the powers we now wield.

One little girl broke up the whole kourtroom when she asked out loud, "Is that the fascist pig, Mommy?" pointing up at the judge.

You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.

Usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely ...

Faced with so much ignorance and prejudice currently I can only comment that Facebook is a breeding ground for the worst fruits of our coarse ...

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger ...

Eating Primal Blueprint style for the rest of your life is much cheaper than long-term prescription drug regimens or extensive doctor visits or hospital stays ...

With one last glance over my shoulder, I feel whole knowing that they are happy. That's my last thought as I find peace. At last.

The shaykh interrupted him, saying, Not so fast. I'm the sort of person who praises only to clear the way to speak the truth, for ...

Nothing will be attained from actions of hundreds of thousands of lives. Moksha (liberation) is attained through 'absolute humility' (param vinaya). The 'gates of understanding' ...

The record is plain: the cartel system retarded the development of a domestic synthetic rubber industry, and, in so doing, jeopardized national security.

There are two unknowns in the World. The Poles and the Turks!

Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.

Georgie was quiet. Neal had never slept with Dawn. She'd always assumed he'd had lots of fabulous young sex with Dawn. Freshly scrubbed Heartland-teenager sex. ...

No matter what you do in the offseason, you can't simulate putting spikes on and standing in the grass and being around your teammates. When ...

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom ...

You are always in control of your own destiny.

There are all kinds of wonderful new inventions that give you nothing as owners except the opportunity to spend a lot more money in a ...

Television was suppressing their freedom not to know.

Don't just make money, make a difference.

Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease ...

In our life there is one side which is finite and another side which is infinite. I want you to think about both the sides ...

If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!

That's the dream. Being on the U.S. National team and winning the World Cup. I'll take the win anyway I can get it.

Past a certain point, maybe, a person's character defines itself and stays fixed in your mind.

If the earth could feed itself and us without rain, and if we conquered the weather and declared permanent sun, would we not miss grey ...

I always write a story in one sitting.

A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district ...

Stupid rock gods! Leo yelled through the helm, thats the third time ive had to replace that mast! You think they grow on trees?Nico frowned. ...

We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law, Byron, Tom Paine, Machiavelli or Christ, it's here. And the hour's late. ...

She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was ...

Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.

Vociferating optimism.

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor ...

(I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158)

The truth between two people always cuts two ways.

Nothing, of course, is ever so strange as love to the one who is not a lover.

I understood that to this mode of pain are doomed the sinners of the carnal kind, who o'er their reason let their impulse reign.

People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way ...

At all times, in all circumstances, Christ is able and willing to provide the strength we need to be content. Contentment occurs when Christ's strength ...

I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.

You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are.

I suspect this is all gonna end in screaming and drowning

And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.

Who you are is of greater importance than what you do.

I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Huh?

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

Corporations invest in sophisticated CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, programs to effectively oversee their relationship with their customers at every point during the buying process.

The vegan lifestyle is a compassionate way to live that supports life, supports fairness and equality, and promotes freedom.

I just kept eating my hot dogs and bowling by myself. Bailey sometimes rolled a ball into a gutter. When I had them put up ...

If we remain determined to shape a new and better world of separate, sovereign nations, this new century will be a happier one.

The light in his eyes was like the sun rising. My knees trembled and my heart quaked. It was powerful and beautiful and perfect.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train ...

I'm 31 now. I think I'm beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

Dr. Beall gave him the first shot, followed closely by the second.He said, "I'll check for a heartbeat."I said, "You don't need to. I can ...

The important thing is to be drunk.

Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operativesprofessions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments ...

How to spell Aedes aegypti,the world's one-stop, viral-disease-transmitting mosquito: T-R-O-U-B-L-E.

Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black ...

It makes me happy to talk about some fundamentally good things.

He was a bad, bad bastard. He abused the privilege of being a cunt, as my old Da would say.' I smiled, picturing the cozy ...

Your world can change in a single moment.

Those who claim to be closest to God are furthest from Heaven.

Globalization by the way of McDonald's and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing ...

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The boy who walks in the light

Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and ...

Overcome evil with good and hate with love.

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

The past ten years have been about discovering new ways to create, invent, and work together on the Web. The next ten years will be ...

I've always wanted to be on an original cast recording. I grew up listening to them, and now to know that my voice is heard ...

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

I don't feel like I'm taking pictures, I feel like I'm just gathering them in. They're all out there. I know where they'll be; I ...

Pain is not seen as an objection to life: 'If you have no happiness left to give me, well then! you still have your pain ...

There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics ... When this country is operating off a common ground, nobody ...

Baseball players tend to have something like 20 good years in them and then around their mid-thirties they aren't in the same shape as the ...

There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, ...

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

If you're a true student of the truth, you may easily get frustrated when people try to make points based on mysticism and cultural beliefs.

We're thankful for the horrors we are used to. The unknown ones are worst

As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.

A part of all I earn is mine to keep.' Say it in the morning when you first arise. Say it at noon. Say it ...

I talk too much but I don't tell enough.

I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped ...

"better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.

I tell you I'm dangerous and you want to put knives near me?- Vaughn to Faith

Malady of mortality