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Embrace controversy. It gives you a platform. It is a teacher, a clarifier, and your friend, especially if you are trying to make change.
A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.
When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.
I've been all over the world meeting with companies and startups and entrepreneurs. And I tell you, they are more similar than different.
English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.
No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.
Everyone wants to be financially secure, the problem is most people focus on "getting by" when they need to be focused on "getting rich."
How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.
Unfortunately the ppl who would do the most good w/ a large sum of $ are often the same ppl who have the biggest hang ups about making $.
It is hard for me to believe that any husband and wife are really happy together. And to have thee say you are is an unspeakable comfort.
Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.
In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
I surround myself with women who inspire me to be more ambitious, and who constantly astonish me with their magnetism, style, and smarts.
Some people just make me feel mentally endangered. Whatever dark stuff is going on in their head, it's coming at me and I need to escape.
We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.
People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.
We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.
If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham).
Regardless of what we say, it's what we do that reveals what we as a church or individual actually believe about God and His will for us.
You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, which in others are luxuries merely and in others still are entirely unknown.
Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.
The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.
I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.
This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.
Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.
What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.
The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.
We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?
Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.
To assert that antisemitism is unlike other racisms is not to claim a privilege for it. Hating a Jew is no worse than hating anyone else.
Let discernment in matters of fashion and entertainment determine who should get the vote, and half the country would be disenfranchised.
Don't be like anybody else. Be different. Then you can make a contribution. Otherwise, you just echo something; you're just a reflection.
We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.
I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.
Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity.
The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.
GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets.
It was never my intention to cause you pain. Whether you feel strongly or very little, that does not excuse thoughtless behavior." - Adam