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Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.
To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit.
Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty LOVE TANK.
Let us start with the biggest no brainer of injustice in the world and that is slavery.
We must start talking differently about poverty--and start doing something differently.
If a man truly wants to communicate with his wife, he must enter her world of emotions.
Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.
When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.
Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.
When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over
In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.
A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.
I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that.
I even dream about writing. I'm talking seeing words across the page, whole paragraphs.
Some religious guys in sports give the impression, 'I've got something you don't have.'
Developing compassion and wisdom and helping those in need is the true meaning of life.
When we learn to accept difficult circumstances patiently, the real problem disappears.
I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.
I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'
nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!
Old houses, I thought, do not belong to people ever, not really, people belong to them.
No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.
Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker." -Dan Cahill
Wisdom is an artful method—a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge.
The ability to choose cannot be taken away or even given away-it can only be forgotten.
The most successful men have used seeming failures as stepping stones to better things.
One of my most important 'Secrets of Adulthood': Outer order contributes to inner calm.
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
Your mind can only hold one thought at a time. Make it a positive and constructive one.
Remember that what's right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right.
In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.
Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.
Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didnt.
I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.
Charm is the next best asset after looks and brains - and can almost make up for looks.
Better to be blind and see with your heart, than to have two good eyes and see nothing.
What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.
I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.
We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.
Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
One must envision the higher life and behave as if it were a fact before it can unfold.
When intervening becomes routine, meaning there is no reason for it, only risks remain.
It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.
When we offer succor to anyone, the Savior feels it as if we reached out to succor Him.
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.