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Tourists as well as natives want to see cultural achievements - whether it's the Banaue Terraces, the old churches or museums.
For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in the fullness of their deeds.
It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.
I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before.
For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.
In Arab Islamic society, it is traditionally taboo to criticize the lifestyle or personal philosophy of any practicing Muslim.
The Russian Dept of Tourism has declared Ukraine its most dangerous destination. Many Russian tourists have disappeared there.
Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.
Trump is a turning point in America's history; everything's fun now. In fact, my only fear is dying from 'winning exhaustion.'
One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward
Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind.
Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.
The ritual of film-going in some sense replaced that of churchgoing, because you share something communal, sometimes mystical.
As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.
Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.
It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.
It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.
I think if someone could demonstrate to me that fiction did no good, I would still do it, because I think it does good for me.
Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.
Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment.
The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it.
No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.
I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.
Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.
Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.
I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for.
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.
I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.
Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.