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Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.
Illium says that perhaps I can use them to flutter someone to death. - Aodhan to Jason, Archangel's Storm
Mercy laughed. “You have to excuse them—boys suffer from an incurable disability.” “What?” “Testosterone.
You are mine, Elena. If you choose to sleep in another bed, I will simply pick you up and bring you home.
Supervision is an opportunity to bring someone back to their own mind, to show them how good they can be.
Don’t wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.
The value of the arts cannot be measured by its ability to preserve life but rather to enhance existence.
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.
Do not search for SUCCESS off in the distance, but instead recognize it and grasp it right where you are!
Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.
Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.
The sucker's trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don't know, rather than the reverse.
The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.
I don't go to the doctor except when I'm very ill, and when I go to India, I drink a drop of local water.
England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt.
One poem or story doesn't matter one way or the other. It's the process of writing and life that matters.
One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
Every child, everywhere; in the whole world there was not one child who was not gravely, sweetly dancing.
History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.
Wars are often waged not because of what we believe, but because of the things we want others to believe.
Who says I'm insane?" "Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.
Life may more than once call upon you to prove Who You Are by demonstrating an aspect of Who You Are Not.
Consider the possibility that the little obstacles in life are not obstacles at all, but stepping stones.
They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.
You are One with everything. When you are clear about this, your definition of self-interest will change.
... think a thought you can accept. "My success is coming to me now," or "all things lead to my success."
When you come from 'love,' you do certain things because you are love, not because you want to have love.
You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.
What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?
You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.
Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.
True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.
In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."
Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.
All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.
Don't worry."... "We are right behind you." "Notice," Lilah added with a smile, "the direction is behind.
Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions.
The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.
The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.
You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.
What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!