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The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things ...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

I wonder what it's like to have that much power over a boy. I don't think I'd want it; it's a lot of responsibility to ...

As a man thinketh in his heart, so shall he be

The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of ...

I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio ...

I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

I must keep on rowing, not until I reach port but until I reach my grave.

I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, ...

It had sometimes puzzled me why falling in love should be regarded as some wondrous event, accompanied by soaring strings, when it so often ended ...

Yoga does not start or end on your mat, but is present in every breath you take.

You need to spend all of your time and energy on creating something that actually brings value to the people you're asking for money!

For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast.

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

You are my favorite kind of hell.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo..

SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. ...

It is written" And I will restore to you the years the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great ...

Fang laughed as he shoved Vane away 'Man, quit hugging on me. You are a perv." Vane punched him in the arm. "You're such an ...

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, ...

Another is that the findings demonstrate that happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather,

It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between ...

Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?" "I've never been accused of poetry before.

You keep a grip of my heels, Pole, and Scrubb would hold on to yours. The we'll all be comfortable.

To paraphrase the disappeared Jimmy Hoffa, who certainly didn't go down in history for his foolish worries: "Eighty-five percent of what you worry about won't ...

I felt confident at 24, but I am a better driver now.

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.

Writing a book is like washing an elephant. You don't know from where you should start and where you should end.

Stole the ambrosia of the gods and was cursed by Zeus to be trapped forever between a bountiful fruit tree and a pool of water. ...

They should install elevators in this place. What if they turned a handicapped person into a vampire? Talk about your discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.

What did you do to him?" he asked in a hushed voice. "Did you get him addicted to happy pills? Did you give him a ...

If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green - ...

Who is your master? Whoever has authority over anything that you're anxious to gain or avoid.

I blog because I have something to say.

Later that night I wake up screaming. A rat is at me, biting and biting me, and I cannot move.

The songs we sing to each other are statements. An ongoing discussion in music notes.

I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and ...

A true sage is simple like a child.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is ...

I am essentially an amateur medecin, and this to me is almost a mania.

It's okay. Suddenly, the pain is starting to fade.""Yeah, revenge does that.

The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.

One of its earliest sacred scriptures, known as the Rig Veda, declares "Let noble thoughts come to us from all directions.

Everyone thinks everything's a waste of time when it's not the thing that leads to an answer.

You never maximize your full potential until you learn how to embrace suffering.

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.

I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.

We all lose sight sometimes, but when we find our way again we are not only 2x stronger but we can see where we need ...

I don't want to hurt you or anybody s just please forget about e. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.I never laughed as hard ...

We need to profoundly revise all of our taxes and charges. The aim is to tax pollution - notably fossil fuels - more, and tax ...

No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.

What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies ...

These are my recollections. If you remember things differently, send me your version - but only if it's funnier.

As promised, Kyoto Station turned out to be an ordeal. For ninety minutes I searched for a way out of the sixteen-story train station,

I have seen worse things than ghosts, and if one were to appear to me, I should have so many questions to ask of it ...

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus ...

It's still about making a good decision. We all want to have the Reggie Bush's of the world on our football team, but it's not ...

We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one's own reality, one must live it! Are you ...

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

I was able to shoot a movie like 'Tree of Life' because I had done 'Y Tu Mama Tambien.' The camera needed to capture that ...

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

What is sanctification? Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and ...

My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.

Eve. The Lee family reunion, never a lively affair, is interrupted

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve,I want to tie the two arms together,And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

You discover your voice. You matter. Maybe not to the world, yet. You matter to yourself. You're worthy.

Our opinion of people depends less upon what we see in them, than upon what they make us see in ourselves

We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how ...

I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. ...

Sullivan had her Crucifix Soldier and now I have mine. No. I am the soldier. Teacup is the cross.

There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. ...

In heaven, after antipasti, the first course will be pasta.

Honesty is the key to Happiness. Be always truthful to yourself, to your feelings, emotions, needs and desires & to others, no matter what!

They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and ...

Agrarian societies don't repel interstellar invaders.

So aggressive was the manner in which this question was put that at first I thought the pair of them were probably drunk: a state ...

To no one, he knew, not even to Willem. But he'd had years to learn how to keep his thoughts to himself; unlike his friends, ...

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

The ability of big money to shape perceptions - where you have four anti-climate lobbyists for every single member of the House and Senate - ...

Regaring Politics: You've got your cats on one side and your dogs on the other; someone has to walk the fence and feed the animals. ...

And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born.

I remember ... watching that separation of sea and sky ... and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the ...

Life had collected her pieces and returned her to love's source. There had been no coincidence.

In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie ...

Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their ...

Remorse turns us against ourselves.

It reveals opinions and attitudes that are malleable, showing the plasticity of what in any given present moment one typically presents as a rock of ...

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

We in a sense went for the Bernie Sanders model OK? Now we're also in turmoil as a result of this result.

I will follow anyone ... And remind everyone ... Of enslaved Yazidi women ... Raped ... And forced ... To donate blood to ISIS men ...

When it comes to making the right moves at the right time, your dance partner is life itself or what can be referred to as ...

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and ...

Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you. ...

Claim ownership of your brand, your expertise, then defend it with deeds

The only time you realize you have a reputation is when you're not living up to it.