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The Christian-Judaic God does not exist, and if He did exist as described in the Bible, He would certainly not be a good role model.
Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices
Every time I get ready to chuck it, I remind myself that I can accomplish a lot in that little minute, and they remember what I say.
Instead of just surviving life and hoping to make it through one more day, I live my life with joy now, and I'm incredibly grateful.
Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.
I've never believed that women have some special, essentialist qualities, or were more nurturing, cooperative, and morally superior.
As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.
The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations.
Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.
Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.
I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.
Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.
I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.
Most men of business think "Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.
I was brought up in great tenderness, and though my mind was proud to independence, I was never led to much independence of feeling.
The main problem I always have with multiplayer is that human beings are grabby, entitled, selfish, ugly, stupid, evil cockstoppers.
The Emanuels are Jewish mafia. It's not that Jews are bad. It's just that they are the head of the Jewish mafia in the United States.
As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later.
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.
It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.
Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.
You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.
I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.
I'm not ever getting a Pulitzer prize and my books aren't on high school reading lists, but for better or worse I'm a working writer.
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.
What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that.
Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.
We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.
I think if I had seen more people like me who are out and proud, it wouldn't have taken me 45 years to say it - to walk in the truth.
A man who went to the 'footie' match on Saturday afternoon and played eighteen holes of golf was really doing his duty by the nation.
And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.
The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where there is hubris, there is tragedy.
Christianity is permitted under China's constitution, and the government has long supported a network of official Christian churches.
Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
I think one of the great innovations of sexual harassment law was that it did not use the word "consent." It used the word "welcome."
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.