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To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a ...

No matter how poor a person is, if they have a family than they are rich.

Listen, emotions have logic. Without emotions humans wouldn't care for each other, and if they didn't care for each other, the species would have died ...

People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative ...

What was creepier, a man who loved clip-on ties or a girl who kept a log of fantasy fathers hidden in her desk drawer?

When you stop making excuses, you start making progress!

The grace of God reaches to the furthest extent to those who are prepared to acknowledge their need.

Never let yourself be goaded into taking seriously problems about words and their meanings. What must be taken seriously are questions of fact, and assertions ...

I've been here before, I tell myself. I've been lonelier than this, more hopeless than this, more desperate than this. I've been here before and ...

When I let go of who I am, I become who I might be.

You're a lady. It's written all over you, but the West doesn't forgive any woman-unless she's got a man.

Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done.

Every day the choice is presented to us, to live up to the spirit that is in us, or deny it.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Mortals liberate Buddhas and Buddhas liberate mortals.

I am most interested in encouraging Christians to think and read well. Christians, of all people, should reflect the mind of their Maker. Learning to ...

An idle life cannot be pure.

With Michael Jackson, what I thought was really interesting was the people saying: 'He looked really well in that final video.' I was, like: 'No, ...

Philosophers are always trying to climb up the fine hairs of the fur in order to stare right into the magician's eyes.

Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about.

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll ...

The idea of being in control for the sake of control is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing what they're ...

Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power ...

The one girl I thought I'd risk it for." He stuck one finger into the air to drive home his point. "The one girl and ...

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

Only those who have awakened know that they were sleeping.

Athena came to stand by her side. She reached out and ran a light touch over the read wrap. 'Nice dress.Grace frowned in disbelief. 'They're ...

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

Pinned under the air that grates like a clawEvery time I look up to the skyI learn that I am trapped in this worldIf only ...

I enjoyed working at R.K.O. more than at M.G.M. At R.K.O., the parts were better!

When we protect ourselves from what we fear, we also undermine our capacity for wonder.

He's 85 and he's met another woman. Still, at 85, why ever not?

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Health care comprises nearly 20 percent of our national economy, but outdated bureaucracy and red tape have stifled competition and raised costs. As a result, ...

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special ...

And so, if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert, except that you can't see the desert because it ...

You never really heard anything about Humpty when he was whole; only that he was broken, irreparable.

I had the privilege of having two sets of loving grandparents.

Farkas's Jewish family trees go on for pages, each virtually identical to the one before, until the conclusion becomes inescapable: Jewish doctors and lawyers did ...

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin ...

I don't think that's changed at all. I think there are a thousand stocks out there that could make you rich, totally independent of what ...

A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the ...

Fractures well cured make us more strong.

When taking a photo, I tend to look for one of the following: depth, symmetry, color or contrast. All of those things catch my eye ...

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.

I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is Tuskegee. I was ...

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as ...

Good people see past their own fucking lives.

The media create this wonderful illusion-but the amount of airbrushing that goes into those beauty magazines-the hours of hair and makeup! It's impossible to live ...

I remember breaking the news to both my parents that I wanted to be a director, and they both looked very doubtful. They didn't know ...

Like fire and rain, (fire and rain) you can dirve me insane But i cant stay mad at you for anything, Were venus and mars, ...

I used to play violin, but I wasn't very good!

She cares about fall's magnificence in the rainThe dipping raindrops' dance assigning thence Indicated rhyme that eases her refrainBefore they met - her paces commence.

Sometimes the things we think are the impediments are actually the path.

Your breasts. Your nipples. The insides of your thighs. I want you wet for me, baby. A little drunk and a whole lot wet.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open ...

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of ...

Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite ...

Much like a recovering alcoholic marks every single day they've been sober, recovering fat asses can't help but think back to how little they thought ...

I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me on my website.

Ultimately Zamenhof's language [Esperanto] was and is more than a proposed solution to the language problem: it is an attempt to confront the spirit of ...

A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100,000 You ...

There's a happiness that comes from writing that I won't live without.

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, ...

Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of the ...

Words in books can remind us of truth, and help awaken us to it. But in themselves, words are just paint and writers are just ...

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.

Most superheroes are painted with a specific moral objective that makes them who they are. And that moral objective influences everything they do, so there's ...

I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to ...

Never a horse that can't be rode and never a rider that can't be throwed. (I'll pass this off as my own, but I really ...

It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a ...

When in doubt, watch Die Hard.

Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.

Keep pace with the times ... Find new and surprising ways to teach girls how to develop every gift and grace of true womanhood.

The smartest thing a woman can ever learn, is to never need a man.

What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs, while the other might as well be on ...

But here's the thing about seeing and knowing everything - sometimes ignorance is safer.

Hug while you can.

We all have a tendency to use prayer to dictate to God.

The ball was literally glued to the back of his foot - into the back of the net.

The Protestant theology of Martin Luther was a thing that no modern Protestant would be seen dead in a field with; or if the phrase ...

It must be a male thing to talk about playing with balls.

Every fairy tale starts the same: Once upon a time, Maybe that's why we love them so much. We all get to be a part ...

I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone ...

There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot ...

Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.

I'm sure she can wait until tomorrow," my

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no ...

I don't have a desire to find myself in jail, but if I'm forced to continue spending time with you ... I fear I might ...

Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before.

Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and ...

If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going ...

It's already long past midnight, but she won't sleep or stop until it's done, because the air is always thicker with magic, faith and possibility ...

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.