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I'm a win-at-all-costs guy.
As you awake from dreams may you find this one the wondrous one to awaken to.
The story of how the Laffer Curve got its name begins with a 1978 article by Jude Wanniski in 'The Public Interest' entitled, 'Taxes, Revenues, ...
Jets center Nick Mangold honors murdered NYPD police officers Rafael Ramos (below, l.) and Wenjian Liu by wearing NYPD cap before game against Patriots Sunday. ...
I wash my hair once a week. You can do that. I swear. My sister-in-law and all of my friends were like, 'I can't do ...
How old is he, Uncle?" "Young whipper-snapper, just twenty-three." Twenty-three! He'd never die off. The town would vote for him and then he'd be sheriff ...
A simple acceptance of what comes to us, regarding it as neither bad nor good."Werde, der du bist, as he would have it," Dr Kellet ...
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.
When you're still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure. By
Trust your heart and embrace the journey. You may make a wrong turn but your heart will get you back on the right path. Just ...
I usually record all through the night, but I'm known for waking up early in the morning. Even if I had recorded till 3 or ...
Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.
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 my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp.
The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable.
But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking ...
'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.
Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.
When two alien cultures meet, the stronger must transform the weaker with love or hate. - Damon Knight, "Stranger Station" (1956) ...
At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been ...
Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference ...
Violet says, 'Are you okay now?' Her hair is windblow and her cheeks are flushed. Whather she likes it or not, she seemes happy. I ...
The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August ...
I never want to contribute to the corrosiveness of wanting someone to stay hidden.
She had spoken it; but she trembled when it was done, conscious that her words were listened to, and daring not even to try to ...
I wanted to be a part of the first 'Twilight' movie, and unfortunately, it didn't work out so great. So when they came back and ...
Weather abroadand weather in the heart alike come onRegardless of prediction.
In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there were no women ...
When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and ...
If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your ...
I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. ...
We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.
No matter what transpires between us, in this life or in any other, I will be with you always. You really are my soul mate. ...
The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished in 19th century ...
But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to ...
Her life was more like a series of tattered Post-it notes with hastily scribbled goals written in dull pencil. Some of them stuck. Lots of ...
Ten years from now I think people are going to look back and say Willis Reed pulled a Curt Schilling ... Willis Reed scored four ...
Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. ...
I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, ...
Boys laugh at what they put girls through - but they won't be laughing when - they're wiping tears off their daughters face for the ...
And now about the cauldron singLike elves and fairies in a ring,Enchanting all that you put in.
Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?
Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.
With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, ...
Sometimes, when you're sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, ...
Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his ...
Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
The ordinary you, the you that has to go to work every morning, the you that has to run a household, pay bills, do all ...
Space is so close: It took only eight minutes to get there and twenty to get back.
My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met
Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So ...
The best way to be boring is to include everything.
[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.
You must make a counter-culture decision to focus on becoming more like Jesus. Otherwise, other forces like peers, parents, coworkers, and culture will try to ...
My films usually start with an idea that I get while walking the streets. For example, I got the idea for 'Guard Dog' when I ...
You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a ...
If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling in ...
The decoding of the human genome tells us that we are indeed related to the animals, the insects, and the plants, and that, like it ...
Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes ...
God is waiting to be gracious, and is willing to make us happy in religion, if we would not run away from him. We refuse ...
During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from ...
Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected ...
What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct ...
Now the wintertime is comingThe windows are filled with frostI went to tell everybodyBut I could not get acrossWell, I wanna be your lover, babyI ...
But the idea of the Dark Lord in possesion of the Deathstick is, I must admit, formidable.
We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves,
If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, ...
And there it is: Even though we're standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.
On the other side of resistance is the flow.
Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone.
It's better to lose someone you love ... than to have no one to lose.
I don't think anybody can really sit down and decide that their mission in life is to make people think. I think their mission in ...
Above all, beware the crowd! The crowd only feels; it has no mind of its own which can plan. The crowd is credulous, it destroys, ...
To be in love with the person who want to "Be the one that you can't live without" and is willing to prove it with ...
People are rude in general.
If global warming is because of weather changes - which a lot of people believe - there's not much we can do to change the ...
We at The Web Standards Project turned everything on its head. We said browsers should support the same standards instead of competing to invent new ...
Neurons giveth and neurons taketh away.
You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in ...
Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.
All love stories have much in common. I wen through the same thing at one point in my life. But that's not what I remember. ...
You must live the life of your dreams.
What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.
Now you got us whammied with the curse of squirmy death.
Bones!" Temmin says, throwing his arms around the droid. "I PERFORMED VIOLENCE," the droid warbles. Jas wonders if that's pride she hears in the thing's ...
Don't let doubt steal your dreams.
_I_ boil it." Joseph entered last, closing the door behind them. "Last time, you burnt it."Connor glared at Joseph. "We were attacked! What would you ...
When your spirit is heavy, when your heart is broken, when your burdens seem unbearable - trust Him. Look to Him.
If Jesus simply came to tell us what to do and provide moral instruction so we could try harder to please God, then his life ...
It is not enough to celebrate Christmas. We need to be changed and shaped by what we are celebrating. If our spiritual life is no ...
... The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of ...
Children were vehicles for passing things along. These things could be kingdoms, rich wedding gifts, stories, grudges, blood feuds. Through children, alliances were forged; through ...
I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call ...
I have a responsibility to not look crazy in public. I don't want to be the person where later in life when I have kids, ...
True to the GAME (Giving, Affirming, Manifesting, Evolving).
I worried too much about what others thought - I can tell you it's a tragic waste of time and energy and pokes God in ...
The best hitting advice I ever got was: Keep your eye clear and hit 'em where they ain't; that's all.
The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory.