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Regardless of what we think we're teaching, we teach what we are.
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And hold on when there's nothing in youExcept ...
They be crazier than we are.
Mississippi and the world is two different places,' the Deacon say and we all nod cause ain't it the truth.
I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.
I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life.
Aye. And I can do without a viper-tongued wench.""Wench? Wench? Lass is one thing, but did you just call me a wench? I'll have you ...
Sure, sure, I'm as sure as Day that you all are a great people. You all are son of "Author". Author in Upper-case is "He", ...
The line between accident and suicide isn't always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind.
Why don't we spend the day together tomorrow? he asked.I smiled. I'd like that.
What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that ...
Three days isn't that long to go without human contact, unless everyone you touch turns your insides into a cold, shaky mess. Then it feels ...
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.
The marquis de Carabas looked up at him. His eyes were very white in the moonlight. And he whispered, What's it like being dead? It's ...
Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.
I have not missed a day in my life of praying. It's always about the same thing, using my life as a vehicle. Whatever I ...
Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King.
But I can't remember anymore what it's like to not be happy.
You made it clear you did not want to discuss the past with him. I followed through on your request.""By beating him senseless?"Calisto looked at ...
If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.
Is where I first/ fell in love/ with unreality pg. 35// A Coney Island of the Mind
It isn't the kind of kiss to end a universe of possibilities. It's the exact opposite. It's the kind of kiss that creates them.
Love without desire, or conditions, or limits - a pure and radiant glow in the heart that could make me giddy and sad and glorious ...
If kids stay up late, it's very bad for their brain development ... they said that on TV ... You want to become a stupid ...
Rules are for suckers and boring people,
Great power can come from memorizing scriptures. To memorize a scripture is to forge a new friendship. It is like discovering a new individual who ...
Instead of going to the gym, I dress in black - a lot more practical and much more fun.
Prevent postal investigators from aggressively interfering with, or closing, a commercial enterprise merely because it has been deemed not to adhere to the prevailing body ...
I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and ...
On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think ... of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people ...
So that plan worked out well.'Skulduggery, your entire plan consisted of, and I quote, "Let's get up close and then see what happens."'All the same,' ...
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
Your potential exceeds your beliefs. Be courageous and chose the impossible.
What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
The ordeal is part of the commitmentEsquire Interview 10/10
Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.
Yemen produces coffee, Egypt cotton, Iraq dates, Palestine oranges, and Syria trouble.
75The evil that men do lives after them: The good is oft interred with their bones;[125]
I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of ...
Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).
Let's use the energy of this historic year to propel us toward our shared vision of a greater Boston.
Mindful of the fact you live in an agricultural country, I presume you know what an ass is. We read in the New Testament that ...
After the kids are asleep you ... well, you know. Whatever it is. You slip away for a night.
Those walls and bars are there for a reason," said Crake. "Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in ...
It's very difficult to play opposite nothing. I did it for, like, six years - I ran from an invisible smoke monster for most of ...
We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have.
Jokes are the declarations of fools.
If you've never known love, you never know where it is, you don't know what it looks like or it sounds like, you look in ...
The proper end of teaching is to lead our students toward autonomy.
I would pay to have those adjudications enrolled into the federal background system so we could detect people who are mentally ill before they buy ...
I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.
Humans, the most intelligent, gregarious(in biology), productive creatures on this planet but also the most selfish, destructive, heartless, insincere, insatiable creatures.
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
One doubt, one voice, one war, one truth, one dream ...
Death bears with it a stain that seeps into the hollow and fills the mind.
Fatigue makes fools of us all. It robs you of your skills and your judgment, and it blinds you to creative solutions. It's the best-conditioned ...
In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
I'd love to remain a secret and still work, but I also want people to see the movies I'm in and get a higher profile ...
Just when he thinks he's adjusting to anxiety as a constant condition, Jake feels several internal organs shrinking.
Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on message boards. I don't read my ...
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.
I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.
Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third ...
..culture is not monolithic either and is not the exclusive property of the East or West nor of the small groups of men and women.
Worship God. It's easier than thinking.
Depend upon it, my friends, if you get tired of the Word of God, and it becomes wearisome to you, you are out of communion ...
If we make every attempt to increase out knowledge in order to use it for human good, it will make a difference in us and ...
The road to comfort is crowded and it rarely gets you there. Ironically, it's those who seek out discomfort that are able to make a ...
How very comfortable to know nothing.
The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.
Solutions are not the answer.
Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years ...
I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being much ...
I hate to fly. I'm deathly afraid of it.
When a zashiki warashi came to live with you, good fortune smiled upon the whole house.
Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.
Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.
Life is a trust fund bestowed on us by our mothers. Invest your time in those who deserve it and not on those who do ...
You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.
*Nothing is free* asserts two things. Both assertions are true.
I collected the 'Walking Dead' comics.
Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
I'm much nicer then all my characters, let's just put it that way.
An enlightened teacher has personal power. Sitting and meditating with an enlightened teacher in a meditation hall or at a power spot can change you ...
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The Government, Church and television keep the average man so mired in petty concerns that he can no longer discern which battles are worth fighting ...
We did not purify [isolate] ... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses ... They were very ...
Wait until the baby is born before you start criticising it, I say!
If men don't have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won't feel compelled to be submissive. If men don't have to control, ...
I mostly work out so I can eat religiously. I'm such a foodie. The only way I can make myself feel better about what I ...
Death ray?" scoffed Victor. "Death ray? Everyone thinks that inventors just have death rays just sitting around. 'Oh you're an inventor? Have you made a ...
The fact that no one knows where I am is my only happiness. If only I could prolong this forever! It would be far more ...
The ultimate function of literature is to appreciate the world, sometimes indignantly, sometimes sorrowfully, but best of all to praise when it is luckily possible.
She satisfies my ideal." Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves; what appears to be "love at first sight" ...
Caught up in our own busyness, frantically running from one crisis to the next in a cycle that looks less like loving the Messiah and ...
Change the way people think and things will never be the same