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As everybody knows, truthfulness and agreeable manners are often divorced on the ground of incompatibility.

Quantum computation is ... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature ... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed ...

Never say no. It always depends on what's possible. I don't care so much where it is; it's what I want to do that matters.

Friendship is only friendship when it is real. Passionate and relentless. Forgiving and joyful. Don't forget today to have real moments with your friends. Not ...

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus ...

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.

He was one of those men for whom all their fatigue went to their eyes in a sleepy, sexy kind of way.

Physics is to mathematics like sex is to masturbation.

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, ...

We're dream chasers. Nobody owes us our dream. But we have to chase it.

It's not a large crowd," he said, "and I have the feeling this wedding party is going to end in an orgy." He shrugged his ...

I thought I had escaped the monsters, that I'd left them locked up behind an electric fence. But the shadows were alive, and they had ...

I consider myself very much a team player.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

A man oughta do what he thinks is best.

I am the knight with a shining Jetta. I am your fucking steed.

It is a sad moment when I sit back and take a critical inventory of my life. I have never allowed myself to dwell on ...

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, ...

I have excellent information and proof relating to conduct of the FBI, .. I can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this case is an ...

I wondered at first whether she might not be feigning timidity out of courtesy to a man of an older generation, but a cold gin ...

Animals have rights, to be smothered with garlic and butter!

The important point there is that when people talk about a mean temperature rise of say two, three or four degrees that's a sort of ...

The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse ...

Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.

Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

The world belongs to the strong,"12 Harry believed. "It always has and it always will.

Tony got up from his desk and crouched down beside her. She was instantly aware of the smell of him, a mixture of shampoo and ...

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. ...

One way of legitimising coincidences, of course, is to call them ironies. That

I rose, locking eyes with Maxon, who I noticed had stopped chewing.

The world is not impressed when Christians get rich and say thanks to God. It is impressed when God is so satisfying that we give ...

For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.

It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law ...

The sceptic only stumbles at matter of fact.

The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student.

So don't make a show of your philosophical learning to the uninitiated, show them by your actions what you have absorbed.

If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.

Isn't that part of love, I wanted to ask, carrying someone else's ghosts for them?

When you were rescuing the love of your life and his parents out in the middle of the blizzard. Even

It would be impossible to think it's just about sex with a woman like you. You demand more without even trying. I'm set on giving ...

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of.

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.

I felt like a toilet frog during the last three decades of the preceding century. (38)

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by ...

If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is ...

Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't.

Jane had gone to pray for the dead queen, Anne would dance on her grave. The

Meanwhile, back in the real world, my first instinct is a sort of stupid ducking motion I've learned from the movies, and I have the ...

As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to ...

He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God.

What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just ... bleak?

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who ...

Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.

When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to ...

Why do we spend so much of our limited time on this earth focusing on all the things that our eulogies will never cover?

I know very little about the viral, electronic world, but I use Twitter to communicate not only information that I think some of the fans ...

The most indespensible ingredient of all good home cooking: love for those you are cooking for.

Darkness and anger, when combined, are their own master.

Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.

There's a scabbard for every dagger,' the madam says in Turkish as the whores laugh.

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles whom we knew.

The purpose of the Reichsautobahnen is to become the roads of Adolf Hitler.

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at ...

Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White House, I used to watch the beginning to see ...

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to ...

She was a single mother of four kids, with little help from Twon, who turned into a complete psychopath once they divorced.

A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear ...

Compassion leads to freedom of discovering your voice, your gifts, and your purpose.

Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful & happy.

True happiness is always available to us, but first we have to create the environment for it to flourish.

Understanding. As one successful parent said about raising children, "Treat them all the same by treating them differently." Attending to the Little Things

All right. I owe you a character. Should we buy another one?" Ross chuckled. "Now you're getting the hang of it." He sighed. "No, let's ...

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better ...

Took me a while to get to the point today, but that is because I did not know what the point was when I started.

They told me I'd never probably see the front-line area.

I've said it's hard. Here's how hard: everybody I know who wades deep enough into memory's waters drowns a little.

Delusion is not just fantasy but compulsion.

All the things we did for this land of ours!Some of us died;Some of us gave speeches.

I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' ...

Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.

I love that, for Kanye [West], there's no difference between the epic and the personal. That makes him sound like a really grandiose douche - ...

I believe that eclecticism is a virtue. It may not be a word, but its definitely a virtue.

When you're really crazy you don't question it. Being aware of my behaviors stops them. Sure, a lot of people pick their cuticles, but how ...

Modern racetracks were consigned to industrial wastelands. One hundred and fifty years ago, Saratoga decided to make it the centerpiece of their town.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

I was generally in favor of segregation of the dead and the living.

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying ...

Dirt has been shrewdly termed misplaced material.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.

There is lonely, and there is alone time. I have found that both have etched character upon my soul.

To the French, [le plaisir] is a part of the general fearless and joyful contact with life.

Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.

If the Loki in 'Thor' was about a spiritual confusion - 'Who am I? How do I belong in this world?' - the Loki in ...