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If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation.
Most of the people who are in elective office in Washington, D.C., they have held public office before. How's that workin' for you?
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.
Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.
Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.
Statistics were magic like this: they could tell you with near-certainty that a thing would occur, without a hint of when or where.
A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes.
All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.
There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.
Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.
He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Ideally, the star will be replaced within eight hours. This sends the message that no single individual is bigger than the company.
I don't like jokes in speeches. I do like wit and humor. A joke is to humor what pornography is to erotic language in a good novel.
You’re so sweet,' Frypan said with a snort. 'Go ahead and die with Thomas. I think I’ll sneak away and enjoy living with the guilt.
I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.
What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.
The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.
You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.
For years I'd thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red.
I couldn't imagine being a girl. The bullshit routine they had to go through just to get out the door consumed half of their lives.
For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.
A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.
"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.
Hats, giant shades and 60-plus sunblock are part of my summer repertoire. I don't want wrinkles, but it's skin cancer I truly fear.
dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.
The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't.
An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.
It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.
Home Depot knows 'the more they help, the more they sell'-oh by the way, for the 'bottom liners' who disagree-it's also vice-versa.
I choose Hosea. Oh, there's no book of the Bible which more beautifully and more painfully demonstrates how very much God loves us.
An unjust acquisition is like a barbed arrow, which must be drawn backward with horrible anguish, or else will be your destruction.
I know of nobody who is purely autistic, or purely neurotypical. Even God has some autistic moments, which is why the planets spin.
You take something from your past that you're somewhat ashamed about and you write about it from another character's point of view.
I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something.
A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.
In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
Not that I was worried about anyone stealing my car. I once had a car thief offer to get me something better for a sweetheart rate.
I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.
Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.
So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
The real genius to make a marketplace flourish doesn't come from the government. It comes from the individual genius of its people.
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!