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The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.
Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.
There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a very sweet tooth.
Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
Most of my books are a two-year project. I tend to follow my heart and my mind and research materials where they take me.
The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.
No man can feel himself alone The while he bravely stands Between the best friends ever known His two good, honest hands.
There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.
Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops.
You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same.
This idea - that the only way to mend the relationship post-affair is through therapy - is unique to the American script.
To live for the moment: it sounds so right and so beautiful. But the more I want to, the less I understand what it means.
I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen
I don’t want money. What the hell’s money good for? You can’t drive it and you can’t eat it and it won’t even fix a flat.
Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.
Rumpty!" he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant.
However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.
Sometimes we don't know what's best until we're forced into it. Often you can be just as happy or even happier with less.
exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.
In England, the system is benign and the people are hostile. In America, the people are friendlyand the system is brutal!
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.
Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.
I can easily hold two opposing beliefs at the same time without any problem, which I find - well, mind-expanding, really.
You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.
I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.
Even if it happened in real life - and oftentimes, especially if it happened in real life - it might not work in fiction.
Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.
Remember, with writing, what you’re looking for is just one person to come up and tell you, 'I love you for what you do.'
When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.
You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.
I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.
If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.
You will attract everything you require - money, people, connections.. PAY ATTENTION to what's being set in front of you.
You can use the law of attraction to create your whole life in advance, right down to the next thing you are doing today.
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.
An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown