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The human race could not go on without reproduction, and marriage creates the most secure environment in which to raise children.
Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.
Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
Strider: Red hots dude. He'd ruin anything for a mouthful of those. Now pull over. William: Gummy Bears. You should have said so.
One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.
For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths. Cometh white-robed Sorrow, stooping and wan, and flingeth wide the door she must not enter.
I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.
... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.
My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.
People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.
It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to watch out for.
I'm not hyper-opinionated, but when I do have an opinion, I'm very stubborn, and I want to persuade everyone to my point of view.
There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.
Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why.
A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.
I'm not calling for a boycott on voting. But I think it should be very clear that just voting is not going to solve our problems.
You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly
If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic.
I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.
"Cracking the Ice" scores the literary equivalent of a hat-trick: funny, harrowing and finally, heartfelt. This book is a winner.
There is no pop category, let alone any infinitely gene-sliced genre name, to contain the lead in Rihanna's voice in 'Needed Me.'
[S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.
Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first.
Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals.
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.
If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
You may raise enough money to tunnel a mountain, but you cannot raise money enough to hire a man who is minding his own business.
For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.
It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.
It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.
Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.
There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.
They call me racist too just because I disagree with a President who happens to be black. You are not racists - you are patriots.
The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.
This is the way I've always thought it should be. We've always blamed ourselves, but I guess we know what cylinder wasn't firing!
...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep.
One thing we've learned about space is that the human body starts to fall apart after relatively short exposures to microgravity.
The obligation to remember is inscribed on every Holocaust memorial, but even the words 'Never Forget' become irksome eventually.
I use social media not to ask new people to like my stuff. I use social media to connect with that one reader who likes my stuff.