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It is not the best for us to lay embargo on the industries that produce temptations. What we need to do is to compete, overcome and dominate the market with the products of our endurance. No battles...

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

my own chocolate center has filled up with poison, the roses he gave me all twisted black

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked...

The older I get, the more I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance.

If my life were a corny horror movie, and the heroine was lost and alone, trapped in an underwater cave, what would happen next? If you guessed, "She drops her flashlight, and it hits a rock and...

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and...

Addicts' children should be removed from their influence, and placed as far away from the offender as was humanly possible.

The man once wrote: Tolkien had that one mostly right. I stepped forward, let the door bang closed, and snarled, Fuck subtle.

Taylor beamed at Suzi. Hey! You're my sister! Mine

There is always someone somewhere in the world waiting for someone else; whether in the middle of the desert or deep within the greatest cities. When those two people meet and their gazes intertwine,...

Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.

If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't. If you think you'll lose, you're lost. For out...

If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors

We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us. "You're joking." "Wish I was."

But at least their provision was universal, and for good and ill they were regarded as a public responsibility.

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess fat from an unhealthy dietary network. Simply excuse yourself from...

We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural impulses were thwarted and distorted.

How sweet are the days of love! And how delightful are its dreams! And how bitter are the nights of sorrow, and how numerous are their fears!

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot? Maybe the lies are all that we've got But aren't they beautiful?

As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes - as you did in this case. But things...

I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the...

It was the women of Afghanistan, my mother believed, who - once they'd been granted access to books and education - would be the salvation of the country

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a...

Our fellowship is with God and His people

… the air is a library and a phonograph record of all lived life, of every spoken phrase, and in it, all words ever spoken still resonate.

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.

Morality is not a large, constructed thing you have or have not, but simply a capacity. Something you carry with you in your brain and in your hands.