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I'll tell you something that's completely true - you can, as a man, obtain everything you want with the truth. If you lie, first of ...

We live so many lifetimes in one lifetime.The most precious form of life is the child. Second is the cacao plant. All I can do ...

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Wingardium Leviosa!" he shouted, waving his long arms like a windmill."You're saying it wrong," Harry heard Hermione snap. "It's Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the 'gar' nice ...

But with social media, we've created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a ...

The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.

4x4 is 75% ability, and 25% equipment.

Paradoxically self esteem problems are more common in young people who are in the physical and mental prime of their lives.

There is always hope and room for faith. Unless, of course, you trust the voice that screams otherwise, while ignoring the whisper that knows this ...

When you're in prison, there's no hiding. These women are not hiding behind towels and shower curtains. They go to the bathroom with no doors ...

Anna's spiritual formation was relegated to cultural expressions of faith: the Christmas Baby Jesus and his gifts, the Easter risen Christ and his chocolate bunnies, ...

I'm just saying I'm being myself, and people understand that.

Pleasure is none, if not diversified.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

The thing about the truth was that it sometimes tore apart the perfect world we forced ourselves into believing existed.

White means the strength of fragility and the fragility of the passage of time.

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a ...

May God want for man to be able to be a child again to understand that he is mistaken if he thinks he can find ...

Never look a gift horse in the magazine well.

There are two types of mind ... the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they ...

It's your mind you have to train, like your mom said that one time, you have to separate yourself from all the crap, get down ...

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

Something Really New: Three Simple Steps to Creating Truly Innovative Products

Westray remembered the organist's manner in the church, and began to suspect that his mind was turned. The other read his thoughts, and said rather ...

Time is now. Live a fuller life.

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the ...

All communication must lead to change

Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of ...

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won ...

As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

Who was responsible? Neither kings, nor priests, nor merchants. The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated ...

Why should we be indignant about slanders directed against a human friend, while at the same time we are patient about the basest slanders directed ...

There's one thing I want you to do for me.""Anything." He pleaded."When you're all alone, sitting in the silence behind bars, separated from your freedom. ...

Christmas is about giving. Be outrageously generous. Have fun, enjoy the process ... then keep it up all year.

One of the jovian moons, Europa, is coated with twice as much liquid water as is sloshing around our planet.

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty ...

The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.

Because you are my Estrella.

Were we to be engaged in a war . . we should become absolutely destitute of elephants. . .What would our children do without elephants ...

The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, ...

Who can stand the weight of God's wrath?

When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the ...

Now tell me you love me again. Tell me you're not going to run from me ever again.

I'm not a freak. That's a horrible thing to say." "That's where you're going. A special school for freaks. You and that Snape boy ... ...

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for ...

If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the ...

How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character!

Beauty is there, you just have to look

Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced his characteristic bravery ...

It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.

I am surprised you didn't whack your head on an overhanging branch back there. I have never seen anyone leap straight up off the ground ...

Alec was closeted, shy, obviously insecure, and obviously hung up on his blond friend Trace Wayland.

I'm a big supporter of the military simply because I'm the daughter of a Polish immigrant who fled Europe during World War II from Poland ...

What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, It's all your fault!

The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.

Dillon diminished my sense of feeling alive, Gavin. But you ... your brought that back to me.

The Latter-day Saint woman who follows Christ is a true Christian in the very best sense of the word. She is a woman of faith ...

I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.

You must become like yourself.

LIFE IS A SERIES OF RUDE AWAKENINGS

An effective leader must step back, look at the big picture, and make sure the important things are not being pushed out of the way ...

No matter what issues I have with feminism, I am a feminist. I cannot and will not deny the importance and absolute necessity of feminism. ...

It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. ...

But remember, it's just between you and me!

For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction seemed to blur ...

She might say: "This mess will clear up if you take that troublemaker there - What's your name? You, with the goatee - out and ...

There's no fun in a bag if it's not kicked around so that it looks as if the cat's been sitting on it - and ...

Cartooning really is just designing.

Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same ...

Many children ... delight in the small and inconspicuous.

Don't look now, but there's one man too many in this room, and I think it's you.

Could any woman live every day with that level of masculinity?

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of ...

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

You couldn't stand to see what terrifies warlords.

Three, Christians who practice repentance should be the only ones allowed into church membership and leadership.

Everything is going to be all right. Miracles happen everyday.

I'm an actor; I hire out.

It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life ... Contentment tends ...

****NOTE 6-30-2015 --Something weird is going on w/my GR profile. This one isn't attached to INTO THE DIM any more, and the one that is ...

High-risk leadership beckons many, but few accept the call.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

That stupid saying "What you don't know can't hurt you" is ridiculous. What you don't know can kill you. If you don't know that tractor ...

In the end, everything happens for a reason. Paths are meant to be crossed for a higher purpose than what we realize at the moment. ...

Most people in the world have seen more of me on-screen than my kids have.

Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found ...

Phin, history is filled with false realities. If we stopped at what we know to be true, we'll never discover that it's actually false. The ...

When he said they needed to humble themselves and listen to God's commands and obey them, he was not posturing. He wanted to impart this ...

No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or ...

Her mother bent close, the smell of whiskey and beer and sweat as familiar as any perfume to Kaye.

But imagine for a moment if we once again knew, strictly as a matter of course, these few unremarkable things: What it is we're eating. ...

If a woman were elected president, would our nation expect her husband to be the official White House host?

There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.

People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. ...

Let us listen to what all the faithful say, because in every one of them the Spirit of God breathes.

When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. ...

Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can find ...

The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperative and her place in society.

Manners are very communicable: men catch them from each other.

If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.