silent” heart attacks, experiencing minimal symptoms and having no idea, until well after the damage is done, that they are in mortal danger. In the course of a lifetime, one out of every two American...

I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to...

He always says, ‘Don’t get fat as your mother has,’ but I don’t think Mom’s fat at all, but I try not to eat much, but he keeps saying it to me. Do you think...

They were the supreme representatives of the Catalan nation, acting as spokesmen for it in any conflict with the Crown, and seeing that the laws or ‘constitutions’ of the Principality were observed to the letter;...

husband and my family and the better half of WriterDog. Prologue

If that’s what you believe the Lord is calling you to do, then you can be confident He’ll go ahead of you.

A curiosity . . . no, a need for a different kind of communion. One with people not of the mountain, but rather the outsiders of the Ridge. She couldn’t explain the call of Angel Ridge. Women before...

The first category is always the man of the present, the second the man of the future. The first preserve the world and people it, the second move the world and lead it to its...

Don’t be insecure about aiming to be a small business. Anyone who runs a business that’s sustainable and profitable, whether it’s big or small, should be

In retrospect, I now believe this expected donation of ten percent of income to the Fellowship was based on bad exegesis of an old Jewish taxation law that Jesus Himself seemed to completely ignore.

Get more ammo. Ammo is good.

The overload makes users less productive and more stressed; thus, there’s a need for some solution. Passively ignoring the problem won’t work, since bits are still heavy, even if we pretend not to notice.

An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul’s summer...

Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why they kill you.

Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.

Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It’s not, if you’re mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.

The student asks: If my redstone necklace had every view of every veil that ever brightened, would I be wise? The master answers: If I had a thousand pieces of a priceless vase, would I...

The moon was just starting to rise above the Tetons, shining

I think the more we fill our lives with more and more things we have to do, the less and less time we are spending on who we have to be.

But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

By the term cult I mean nothing derogatory to any group so classified. A cult, as I define it, is any religious group which differs significantly in one or more respects as to belief or...

Categories No. 1 and No. 2: Rolled-up trips and three cards to a low straight flush.

A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a...

Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will give you rest.

Because something is significantly wrong with a creature that sacrifices its children’s lives to settle its differences.

I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food,

She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women’s lives. Whatever it was, I was clearly missing it. It was so much more...

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro’ fear of being thought to have but little.

Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seeking peace; only the...

I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.

Perhaps our matching black outfits – even Phoebe wears dark colors – convince him that we are lesbian Buddhists

In pace requiescat!

Recovering Leah knows fear stands for false expectations appearing real.

To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of...

Winners recognize that even when they aren’t physically selling a product, they are always selling themselves. Every human interaction is an opportunity to connect—and then to sell.

we are simply inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.

Slow as your own dubious grace.

Sin and the effects of sin are similar to the laws of inertia: a person (or object) in motion will continue on that trajectory until acted upon by an outside force.

was serene. Her Moscow troubles had become a memory to her.

Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.

Ze kraait dit wapenfeit trots rond

with few apparent connections to Afghanistan as such, but there were no calls to bomb Riyadh (imagine if the hijackers had been Iraqi). Rather, Saudi Arabia is a favoured ally in the ‘war against terrorism’....

Men as a class appear to be “at risk,” maybe even at high risk.

Fitzpatrick: Back when I was doing Perl-even for people that knew Perl really well-I would recommend MJD’s Higher-Order Per!. The book is really fun in that it starts somewhat simple and you’re like, “Yeah, yeah,...

– Okazuje się, że jest duże prawdopodobieństwo, że pieniądze z ZUS-u znikają gdzieś w korytarzach czasoprzestrzennych…

The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner...

The polarization is such that the conservatives on this side have their prayer meeting and their choir meeting. And the liberals on this side have their prayer meeting and their choir meeting, and the two...

and line of cases. Justice Byron R. “Whizzer” White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of “raw judicial power,” as it took these decisions from the states and enshrined their determination in the...

It doesn’t promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we will find more life. And it insists that by opening ourselves to strangers,...

Listen. In every office you hear the threads of love and joy and fear and guilt, the cries for celebration and reassurance, and somehow you know that connecting those threads is what you are supposed...