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The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.
In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.
If I'm put in a situation where I am not really sure what's going to happen, it can be overwhelming. I get a bit anxious.
I think what you notice most when you haven’t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.
No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.
We don't see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.
Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.
If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.
There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.
You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.
But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
You fainted,' Tom said. Reg coughed. No, I didn't,' he said. 'Women faint. People afraid of needles faint. Men black out.
Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them.
To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.
We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.
As someone who went to school in the '70s and '80s, I can't say that I noticed much of a 'medals for all' culture myself.
You learn the most from sitting down and doing the work, regularly, patiently, sometimes in hope, sometimes despairingly.
Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.
Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes.
When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything!
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America, that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
Fortunes gravitate to men whose minds have been prepared to attract them just as surely as water gravitates to the ocean.
No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.
The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.
I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's heart.
People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.
It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!
There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now.
Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.
You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.
Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don't try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully.
Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result.
They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive.
Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!
She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
Kate had never been married, so she had no way of knowing if I was a normal husband. This has been good for our marriage.
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?
I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.
You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?
I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.