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That's like saying Firefly's Mal was just Han Solo. He wasn't.
Mostly humanity lives with its consciousness asleep blowing like a leaf in the winds of unawareness.
Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant responsibility ...
Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life.
For when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they ...
What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn't allow most of the population to share in the gains from that growth?
Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually ...
I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy ...
I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not ...
We made records to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records. I still feel that way. I put out a record because I ...
Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
How to wear a red cord tied around my left wrist to keep away the ones who only saw you as a single step, rather ...
By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to ...
To what extent is someone at fault if his brain is damaged in ways about which he has no choice? After all, we are not ...
The mister days that letters are the key, but even when you know the whole family, there's so many combinations you can make. And they ...
When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. ...
The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 x 24 x 365 x forever.
For monarchy to work, one man must be wise. For democracy to work, a majority of the people must be wise. Which is more likely?
People are irrational - and predictably so.
The Church must be a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven, and encouraged to live the good life of ...
I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.
There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.
The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control.
William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.
Every runner has a specific motivation and inspiration for running a marathon. This year, all 36,000 of us will 'run together' to demonstrate the spirit ...
Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism which is true, but they miss the point. It was ...
We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question ...
I should take my dog for a walk now. i can only handle one bitch at a time
Life doesn't begin at forty, it begins when you are no longer afraid to live it.
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.
That has nothing to do with basketball. That's just because I'm sexy.
In my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times.
The inner master, when confronted with an obstacle, uses it as fuel, like a fire which consumes things that are thrown into it. A small ...
What the fuck happened to you? [...] You look like you lost a fight with a lamprey. Hickey, hickey...bruise, bruise, bruise...bite. I thought that thing ...
Emma still had a joyless look, and, habitually, at the corners of her mouth, she had that tightness that crumples the faces of old maids ...
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live ...
You can look at a person's attitude and know what kind of thinking is prevalent in his life ... It's better to be positive and ...
Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.
Anything is possible, and that's something we should not lose sight of. The inspiration and the permission to dream is huge.
It is easy to program in Ruby, but Ruby is not a simple language.
Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.
The detectives slide back on the digital timeline to the moment when Mendelssohn steps out into the snowstorm: there is something of the Greek epic ...
We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.
Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always ...
Such thinking is sheer speculation, but the laws of physics allow for the possibility of opening a hole in space by concentrating enough energy at ...
I watched in astonishment, Jess reached up and cupped Miss Georgia's breasts in her hands, giving them an appraising squeeze and admiring nod. A moment ...
Always there has been an adventure just around the cornerand the world is still full of corners.
No one has, or ever will, be able to experience or express your singular point of view, which is why it is so important, both ...
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his ...
When you have harmony in the different areas of your life, with your mind, body, and spirit, you're just so much stronger, especially in really ...
Yeah, trust the fuckhead.
Where's Quinn?'"He went around the other side." Connor replied. Stealth mode."A war whoop and a mocking laugh belied that comment.Hunter sighed. 'He's across the street, ...
Every morning we awaken from sleep and from our dreams and enter the state we call wakefulness. A continuous stream of thoughts, most of them ...
He would save her again, and again, no matter how angry he was with her. "Can
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, ...
A stream cut across the grass, and tree branches flowed low to the ground, like a curtain of green fluid. The sound of the water ...
If I thought the Lord was speaking to me I'd check myself into Bellevue, and I think you should too.
When dad says he's going to church, he actually means he's going to a library or a bookstore. - Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage ...
I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
The ancient Egyptians believed the god Anubis met each of us on the other side, and that he stood before a great scale on which ...
The greatest victory comes not from winning against enemies but from winning over one's self.
Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once ...
A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.[Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]
Sometimes I don't drink so the next day I can remember having fun.
They fight like puppies. They are young, and boys. They are full of anger and impatience. Women have less trouble with these things. It's part ...
I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.
I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of ...
Kaleb hadn't expected anything else - if he were on the other side, he wouldn't trust himself either.
Whatever made you successful in the past won't in future.
You could be happy with three. Three is a good number.But in this life, in this world, three is not enough. You can't stop. You ...
Catcher snorted. "If we're not playing naked Twister, we're wasting our waking hours.""Yep," Mallory said as she tugged him down the sidewalk, "that's the love ...
I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject. When all of ...
We gotta show up tomorrow ready to eat somebody's face.
The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order ...
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.
Is there something in women that makes us long to be humbled? Or is it something in human beings, that when we are overmastered, we ...
All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.
Nature is cheaper than therapy.
On a beautiful clear Sunday morning, myself and James Nesbitt jumped out of a plane together at 18,000 feet.
Who's the best person you know. Of all the people you know personally, is there anyone who has a sense of right and wrong and ...
I've got a guy in my office that works 24/7 to shut down websites that are putting 'Dead Air' on the net for free - ...
I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.
What's the difference?" I asked him. "Between the love of your life, and your soulmate?""One is a choice, and one is not.
Economy is the first and great article (economy such as I understand it) in my financial creed. The controversy between direct and indirect taxation holds ...
There is a longing for a supposedly simple and virtuous past that is almost universal among the people of a complex and vicious society.
It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.
It takes bravery to care for someone - no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping ...
I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But I believe I've got a role to play ...
So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.
Kennedy saw the presidency as the vital center of government, and a president's primary goal as galvanizing commitments to constructive change. He aimed to move ...
Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame.
One of Obama's most impressive attributes is his quiet confidence: Voters sense that he is comfortable in his own skin, a dedicated father and friend ...
When golf used to be a rich man's sport, if you were poor you could not step foot on a course.
There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in ...
Demon," the woman spat onto the road. "Well, girl, thank you. I grant no one's wishes and so you mark me 'demon.' I grant no ...
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.