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Three-quarters of the flags, borders and anthems sitting at the U.N. today were not there 60 some-odd years ago.
We have a choice at every moment. We can engage in sadness, anger or fear or we can choose joy, love, and peace.
It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.
I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.
This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.
You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.
It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them or can't be bothered.
Don’t lose faith in the good things, even when life is tough. The good things come in waves, along with the bad.
I'm always suspicious when a guy takes his date on a walk, because it reeks of poverty and an inability to plan.
Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.
Maybe home isn't a place. Maybe it's a feeling you have inside of you, being around the people who matter to you
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
This isn't what I wanted. This isn't what I would have chosen. You must know that. It's important you know that.
Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
There are only two ways to establish competitive advantage: do things better than others or do them differently.
Albrecht's Law - Intelligent people, when assembled into an organization, will tend toward collective stupidity.
People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.
some wishes come true. some wishes dont. sometimes you find out you were wishing for the completely wrong thing.
Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.
I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.
If you want to feel more comfortable and happy, work on making the people around you more comfortable and happy.
In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.
As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.
One of the enemies of creativity and innovation, especially in relation to our own development, is common sense.
In some cities they tear down buildings to save taxes. They might try tearing down some taxes to save buildings.
God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.
The easiest and most powerful way to increase customer loyalty is really very simple. Make your customers happy.
And Carolina will be cheering on the beautiful daughter of Magda and Shalom Singer, the new Lady America Singer!
A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. “What do you want?” he said softly.
True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself.
A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable.
You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks.
Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.
Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.
Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.
When the stormy winds of life threaten to knock you down, may you have the courage to spread your wings and fly!
The unwillingness to be accountable to a spouse makes most men, and now women, vulnerable to sin in their lives.
There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.
His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.
Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.
It's easier to get divorced than to engage in the soul-stretching personal growth that is inevitable in marriage
Childhood is a long, long road, from which that dark whispering forest of death seems an impossible destination.
I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.
The sullen boy sitting before me is not my husband, and the girl he is fretting over isn't me, will never be me.
This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.
I do not believe that you have to spend a lot of money to eat well: it is hard to beat a plain old baked potato.
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.