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Instead of saying; "WWJD (What would Jesus do)?" I will be asking myself "WIDTM(Will I Do This Do Myself"Because Jesus said, "Love your neighbors as ...
I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought ...
I'm a country boy, so I really appreciate the country. I love fishing, so I fish between takes on set. During lunch, I go for ...
I believe we all want the same thing - it doesn't matter who you are or where you're living. We all want to be healthy, ...
I understand politics and I know there's gonna be a lot of verbage.
If the earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment?
Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a ...
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss ...
Beautiful Savior, King of creation, Son of God, and Son of Man! Truly I love Thee, Truly I serve Thee Light of my soul, my ...
We need to explore the relationship between means and ends. Purposes grow out of situations. One may find the pursuit first and then this brings ...
If you don't have anything good to say about someone, you must be talking about Hillary Clinton.
P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.
My father was a rabbi and had a little synagogue in Canada, so I'm from Canada. I left there at 16.
Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they're all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night sky with its ...
No, the only way to peace is through darkness, the black door, through the cellar to the money.
The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.
We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and ...
And what's so bad about your being deprived of that? ... All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have become soft ...
Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the ...
Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization ...
For me, honestly, one of the first movies I did I was always pounding coffee, and I crashed so horribly. So I've kind of weaned ...
The cells in your body are completely loyal to you; they work for you in harmony. We can even say they pray to you. You ...
I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.
Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance.
I have only one question, my sister and my friend," she said, so earnestly that Kethry came out of her own fear and looked deeply ...
After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq.
He slowly lowered his arms. The look on his face reached out and wrapped her in a warm embrace of love. He got to his ...
You could stop taking their phone calls, tear up their letters, pretend they'd never existed. Start over as a new person with a new life. ...
I grew up, really, in the days before air conditioning. So I can remember what it was like to be really hot, for instance, and ...
To find true peace, forgive those who fill your mind with hatred and instead show them the path of love.
We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.
Different entities are composed of different densities of molecules but ultimately every pixel is made up of electrons, protons, and neutrons performing a delicate dance. ...
The sun knew not where she had housing; The moon knew not what Might he had; The stars knew not where stood their places. Thus ...
And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. ...
Private fireworks are far superior to public fireworks.
For those people who don't know what Whiteboy clothing is, it is not a white-supremacy thing. It is a great clothing line that just says, ...
If God always met our expectations, He'd never be able to exceed them.
I like it that in many ways we are all the same.
It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier.The needle ...
During the "first Thanksgiving" at Plymouth, Wampanoag Indians - including a Patuxet Indian named Squanto - helped teach Pilgrims how to farm, fish, and hunt ...
The wind fights in the treetops; the leaves move in a hundred dialects of green...p.17
But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels the weight ...
Who knew that the path to a womans heart was through the soul of an honest man?
At the end, what matters is the strength of the string - not the wealth and power of the dining party.
I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.
I don't know how to depict intelligence.
And by the way, I'm completely head-over-heels, please-don't-wake-me-from-this-motherfucking-dream in love with someone else. She's everything you're not and then some. So I guess I owe ...
Churchill's 2,054 page book "Second World War" makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic ...
The better the script is the more you can commit,but you can only really commit with full confidence when you know the material is as ...
I don't think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We are ...
Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited ...
I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like ...
Vulnerability is a pretty scary thing. You can feel naked in a lot of different ways.
Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I'm not a fan ...
Brave, stupid girl, Thorne muttered. He sank back down to the floor, his expression torn between relief and increased distress.
We must recall the most important of humanity guidelines: Be polite. Being polite is possibly the greatest daily contribution everyone can make to life on ...
My happiest memories have no place in the past; they are those I have yet to create.
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
The soil is not a mass of dead debris, merely resulting from the physical and chemical weathering of rocks; it is a more or less ...
When the culture is strong, you've got this consistency where black people can grow up in these places with this voice just resonating about our ...
At this point in my life, I am the joy that I've fought for
The next question is how? How does news find us? What you need is a certain critical literacy about the fact that you are almost ...
Then I went to the windows and pulled them open. The rain had stopped and the night was very still, black except for the glow ...
Fair Game Theory: If you are dumb enough to be drained by people then you are fair game.
[T]he rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an ...
The foundation of a strong economy and job creation begins with providing every child in America with the best possible education, including students with disabilities.
Because as far as she was concerned, there was no in-between: She wanted all or nothing, illogically, irrationally, even though something inside her knew that ...
I used to beat up kids and bite kids and do stuff all the time.
You better have your story down before you take it to a teenager.
As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions.
It's that wounded-poet crap, that soul-pain shit, that too-much-of-a-tortured-genius-to-wash bollocks. Brush your teeth, you little bastard. You're not fucking Byron.
My philosophy is as simple as ever - smoking, drinking, moderate sexual intercourse on a diminishing scale, reading and writing (not arithmetic). I have a ...
But maybe...maybe you have to know where you come from, and what you are, before you run away to become something new.
Don't let the things you have to do take over the things you love to do," Gran
My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?
I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him.
That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for ...
The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can ...
The novelist loses, every time. Politics is insidious, the modern conduct of war (from shoulder-launched rockets to drone strikes) is insidious. Someone presses a button ...
Missus said I was the worst waiting maid in Charleston. She said, "You are abysmal, Hetty, abysmal." I asked Miss Sarah what abysmal means and ...
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into ...
If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately ...
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
Was I wrong? Was I imagining a problem where there wasn't one? Of course my great aunt Maureen always said even a broken clock is ...
But when it comes to fiction, the writer's only responsibility is to look for the truth inside his own heart.
The Sufi Muslims say, "Praise Allah, but also tie your camel to the post." In other words, it's good to take a transcendent view of ...
I've had teachers that inspired me, yes. I think teachers play a really important role in people's lives. I had one teacher in particular who ...
I have omitted to give a detail of his words, from a notion that they would not interest the reader as they did me, and ...
Like sisters everywhere. With personalities shaped by birth order, we are the keepers of each other's secrets and protectors of each other's childhood memories. We ...
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes ...
I adore him I have never been so happy. I have real love.
Shiloh had as many casualties as Waterloo, and yet there were another 20 Waterloos to come.
If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another ...
We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others
Oh, girl, not woman, more than child, Which of us two is the more wild? So
The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the ...
For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ...