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I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.

Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.

You're infringing on my personal space."~Nora

Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.

The fat kids, the skinny kids, the tall ones, the short ones, and everybody in between: I am so thankful that not a single one ...

Oftentimes when you have the federal government or others step in and start to raise minimum wage, what happens is you take away or reduce ...

Fascism is the punishment inflicted on the proletariat for not having continued the revolution begun in Russia.

Society is better off with me in a gym.

I believe that fact had been haunting Danny for all these years. But now he could change all that. He could right a wrong and ...

A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you ...

Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes.

God has taken his chosen people, the problem being you are the only non-chosen person.

Before I knocked the antidepressant back, I had a little word with it. Work, I urged. Take away this awful, awful feeling.

I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding after having kids, like Mary King, ...

There was something beneath the surface of things.

I'll always have acting. But then if I had to choose something else it'd probably be singing or dancing - if I had to. Or ...

As complexity rises, precise statements lose meaning and meaningful statements lose precision

The private life of one man shall be a more illustrious monarchy,more formidable to its enemy, more sweet and serene in its influence to its ...

I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to want to sleep ...

When you're launching a business, you just really want to know somebody deeply to help in how you do it.

On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to ...

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to ...

I'm a sportsman, you know, and I shoot skeet, and I grew up in the Midwest, so that's a part of my culture.

Everyday heroism is all about doing what we ought to on a daily basis and regardless of the tons of pressures that come on our ...

Freedom of speech encompasses precisely the freedom to annoy, to ridicule, and to offend.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies ... In the Hills, ...

It is our duty to improve upon every blessing the Lord gives to us.

If that's true and the rate stays like that for another 40 years, there's a good probability that somebody who is active in the credit ...

No one should ever be ashamed of going to meetings. It's healthy, it's therapeutic and it's the right way to live.

Look around you. Everything changes. Everything on this earth is in a continuous state of evolving, refining, improving, adapting, enhancing ... changing. You were not ...

I never count calories, but I eat so well.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me ...

It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is ...

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late ...

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

To every place at once, and, nowhere fixt, The mind and sight distractedly commixt.

When you visited my office the other day, did I accidentally say I couldn't wait to see you again? Because if so, I left out ...

Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

Living without personal boundaries is like trying to hold my breath and gasp for air, at the same time, it doesn't work. My introverted nature ...

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff ... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that ...

The Quality of Love or Fear you Carry into each Moment determines which Road you Travel.

To a magician there is very little difference between a mirror and a door.

The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.

That day, she became categorically certain of two things: that he annoyed her, profoundly, and, if she could, she would never leave him.

My father was furious with me, absolutely furious. I'm sure he wouldn't have been so mad if I'd have volunteered to join the army. Anything ...

Choices made, whether bad or good, follow you forever and affect everyone in their path one way or another.

Romania was an original mix: a population that looked Italian but wore the expressions of Russian peasants; an architectural backdrop that often evoked France and ...

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.

We all have choices. Every single one of us. Some of us are too blind to see them. Some of us don't make use of ...

Freedom to leave the persecutors are not so worthless.

Aw, it's just like a woman. When the shootin's all over and everything's safe, they pass out.

No life lacks grandeur if you claim it as your own.

We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place.

They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your ...

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

God' is an excuse to justify hate.

If you live in Europe ... things change ... but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

What I really see myself doing is late-night TV. No woman has ever done it.

Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.

Madness is a matter of perspective, little dreamer.

Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so.

Clipped account of a mannered life, a life rich with achievement, grace, respect.

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

VAS HAPPENIN MAN"?

You know you are in love when the two of you can go grocery shopping together.

Nietzsche would have put it, we need art in order not to die from the truth.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

Think about all the selfish non-smokers out there, driving around on asphalt, drinking water out of the tap, not even thinking about how smokers' taxes ...

To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

Honestly, my biggest education regarding improv comedy actually came on the job working for 'My Boys.'

I was once chillin in my room, watching TV, just in a regular place.. And now I'm in this big world, living my dream and, ...

One's sovereignty over the land is expressed most powerfully in the act of banishment. Perhaps the first eviction recorded in human history was Adam and ...

He stayed with her for so long because he liked the idea of being in love. He has an empty well in his heart that ...

I am a very keen photographer. I have enjoyed taking pictures since I was a kid with my family, but I became more serious about ...

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

When you try hard to get something, but you gain nothing, this is what's called depression.

Ever tried putting a caramel candy in a cup of hot tea? It's excellent! Not only does it give a little different taste to the ...

The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy ...

I would have thought there's no greater country to watch rugby than New Zealand.

No one is free from uttering stupidities. The harm lies in doing it meticulously: Nae

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

On the page, I'm perfectly charming, but that's just a trick I learned. It has nothing to do with me.

Who you truly are as a person is best revealed by who you are during times of conflict and crisis.

He is there to present the gospel of God.

His voice is warm and husky like dark melted chocolate fudge Caramel ... or something.

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint ...

Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for ...

What one has to do usually can be done.

You got to face your evil, Hoodoo," Zeke said. "If people don't face the danger that's seeking them, evil will find them first.

It's wrong, what you say, and I beg you, if you're a good man,to forget what you've said, as I forget it," she said at ...

You're afraid, Nana, she might have said. You're afraid that I might find the happiness you never had. And you don't want me to be ...

Brahman and I are buddies.

My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time - you're going ...