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When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.
There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.
No specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
I feel very happy since the Lord called me to step out in faith, and I obeyed. The Lord is our inexhaustible treasure.
The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.
Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.
We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.
The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?
I loved you long before you loved me. It's the only thing I have you beat at, and I'll bring it up every chance I get.
Angel... I don't think you understand the lengths I would go to if it means keeping you here with me.' -Patch (PG 262)
Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.
The euro is a great achievement. It's a symbolic achievement. But, the European constitution was a missed opportunity.
An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.
No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.
Nearly a quarter of American men were in the Armed forces. The rest were in school, in prison, or were George W. Bush.
I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.
Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.
In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
I do not believe in a religion that cannot wipe out the widow's tears or bring a piece of bread to the orphan's mouth.
How wisely fate ordain'd for human kind Calamity! which is the perfect glass, Wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.
I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.
We plant sod where God wants 2 plant seed. He's more interested in growing our character than having us look finished.
Without focusing and getting to clarity you cannot lead. You cannot motivate. You cannot plan. You cannot communicate.
Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.
Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.
That's really part of being a grounded theory researcher - putting names to concepts and experiences that people have.
God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be." --Brennan Manning
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.
Woman's primary place is in the home, where she is to rear children and abide by the righteous counsel of her husband.
Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.
The trees which are pruned, watered and nurtured by caring hands bear the greatest fruits; it is the same with people.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.
Whatever you are, whatever gifts you end up getting, you’ll find that time will make those changes less scary as well.
Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.