The current best estimate for the Earth’s weight is 5.9725 billion trillion tonnes, a difference of only about 1 per cent from Cavendish’s finding.

Logan steps in between us.

He hadn’t been peeping intentionally; he’d been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed.

I believe that the truth is the only force that will set us free. I have hope, not in the tangible or in what I can personally accomplish, but in the faith that battling evil,...

I think the single most reassuring thing about doing a startup is knowing in advance how difficult it is going to be.

He was so handsome, so beautiful. Inside and out.

decision latitude.” Behavioral scientists use this term to describe the choices, and perceived choices, a person has. In a sense, it’s another way of describing autonomy—and lawyers are glum and cranky because they don’t have...

enduring at the time played in his formulation of the test.

When you don’t know what you believe, everything becomes an argument. Everything is debatable. But when you stand for something, decisions are obvious.

prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn’t respond to our needs and requests.

But, if one cuts more deeply, the lonesome dove is Newt, a lonely teenager who is the unacknowledged son of Captain Call and a kindly whore named Maggie, who is now dead. So the central...

For instance, when people press their lips together in a manner that seems to make them disappear, it is a clear and common sign that they are troubled and something is wrong.

One advantage of static factory methods is that, unlike constructors, they have names.

I want to go home,” Big Joe said miserably. The sergeant put him in the infantry too.

social media” in and of itself, is not a discipline. Digital crisis management, on the other hand, is. So are digital customer service and online community management. This means that a certification program that focuses...

I felt no shame in these activities, because I understood what almost no one else seemed to grasp: that there was only an infinitesimal difference, a difference so small that it barely existed except as...

Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of irony. Not that is was a living hell. It wasn’t. But is sure as hell wasn’t heaven, either.

Some day this war is going to end…

The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it.

Asking why you are doing something serves as a check and always moves your focus back to the big picture. Asking why helps you find out if your actions have come unglued from your goals....

Many programmers would prefer to mock in their client library specs, but doing so could result in the service and client passing all specs with hidden failures.

This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.

The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be?...

No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting another up.

Now, we can get the vector basis of the total combined Webmind alpha-state consciousness…

We remember, also, how that it is becoming increasingly difficult in these strenuous days for those who are desirous of studying the deeper things of God to find the time which such study requires.

Commentary would come to life in 1945 amid widespread predictions that mass unemployment would resume as soon as war production ebbed. But it wouldn’t take long after the war to see that the dire prophecies...

The bigoted, the narrow minded, the stubborn, and the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning.

Mark my words—you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life’s stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be...

Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow.

Comic, but only at the right distance.

There was a sound like a garbage bag of pudding dropped off a tall building onto a sidewalk. Robert had erupted, chunks slapping off the walls in every direction.

Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didn’t have a lot to do with hating my job. From the...

We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality.

He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

Storytelling is a form of self-disclosure.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

When God looks at you, he doesn’t see you; he sees the One who surrounds you. That means that failure is not a concern for you. Your victory is secure.

When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along; and when they went they left a calm behind which was...

Grand and complex. You say love because people believe in the word, it has a shared meaning and demands respect. It makes the strength stronger. But the strength can be unpredictable, it can gain a...

virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.

I threw back my head, my hair falling about me like a great red curtain, and cried out. My eyes felt hot and burned with tears as my body trembled with the passion for blood. 

Olek natomiast usiłował złapać którąś z dziesiątek lecących w jego stronę strzał. Jego refleks był jednak tak beznadziejny, że nie pozwoliłby mu złapać nawet sędziwego ślimaka z drewnianą protezą zamiast nogi.

One of the many difficult things about women was that they tended to pick the most unsuitable times to tell you something they considered to be important, and then became irrationally upset when you failed...

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

At that moment, I felt my resistance leave me. And it was a great sense of relief.

Just as I Am,” but when it comes to praying, we don’t come just as we are. We try, like adults, to fix ourselves up. Private, personal prayer is one of the last great bastions...

Image perception makes a big difference. That’s one of the things I tell entrepreneurs today. Fine, focus on products, focus on customers and all that good stuff – that’s necessary. But the image that you...