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Andy McKnight.

~ Markee Anderson

or dead is coincidental. Copyright 2010 by Karen Fraunfelder Cantwell Chapter

~ Karen Cantwell

a push up or two . . . or twenty.

~ Karen Cantwell

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 had failed. It became clear that Western democracy was far from finished, American power seemed limitless.

~ Benjamin Balint

It’s as if people used the invention

~ John Lanchester

of seatbelts as an opportunity to take up drunk-driving.

~ John Lanchester

American socialism had lost momentum even before the war. (Socialist leader Norman Thomas received 885,000 votes in his 1932 run for the presidency, but only 187,500 in 1936.)

~ Benjamin Balint

Ah, Antonio, it IS the noblest sport that ever was. I would give a year of my life to see it. Is the bull always killed?   Yes. Sometimes a bull is timid, finding himself in so strange a place, and he stands trembling, or tries to retreat. Then everybody despises him for his cowardice and wants him punished and made ridiculous; so they hough him from behind, and it is the funniest thing in the world to see him hobbling around on his severed legs; the whole vast house goes into hurricanes of laughter over it; I have laughed till the tears ran down my cheeks to see it. When he has furnished...

~ Mark Twain

Rome, on the other hand, lost—suffering on that one day more battle deaths than the United States during the entire course of the war in Vietnam, suffering more dead soldiers than any other army on any single day of combat in the entire course of Western military history.

~ Robert L. O'connell

Polybius managed to attach himself to the clan and person of Scipio Aemilianus, grandson of one of the two losing consuls at Cannae

~ Robert L. O'connell

That’s the way it is with Appian; things that appear ridiculous on average just might have happened, so they cannot be entirely dismissed.

~ Robert L. O'connell

The instant the old folks had entered their codes and the Harmony program had begun to sing, suicide disappeared from human society. Nearly all battles ceased. The individual was no longer a unit. The entire social system was the unit. By losing its sense of self and self-awareness, society had been freed from the pain it suffered because its systems had relied on imperfect humans, arriving for the first time at a perfect bliss. I am a part of the system, as you are part of the system. No one felt any pain about that any longer. There was no “me” to feel pain. I had been replaced by a single...

~ Project Itoh

No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

~ Steven Pressfield

It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s happened on your watch.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

He tried to read, but the words swam in front of his eyes in meaningless waves. He put on the television. Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.

~ Harlan Coben

He takes a hold of the back of my neck.

~ Addison Moore

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.

~ Jeff Jarvis

intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

~ Matt Taibbi

Three years with Claudia had taught Ruso that when a woman said something did not matter and refused to tell you what it was, it usually mattered a great deal—to her, if not to you. Frequently her way of punishing you for not knowing what it was in the first place was to refuse to tell you until you gave up asking. This was her cue to accuse you of not caring about her, otherwise you would have known what she wanted you to know without having to be told. Finally, if you were lucky, she would explain the latest way in which you had failed her expectations. If you were not lucky, she would explain...

~ Ruth Downie

I was just trying to remove a stain, I made a bigger stain.

~ Deborah Treisman

lenders to trade their long-term income streams for short-term cash. Say

~ Matt Taibbi

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 to do and business takes care of itself.

~ Susan Scott

The great differentiator going forward, the next frontier for exponential growth, the place where individuals and organizations will find a new and sustainable competitive edge, resides in the area of human connectivity.

~ Susan Scott

leave me. And it was a great sense of relief. The

~ Rebecca Goldstein

He thought, I got wings on my eyes, and the thought was so odd and yet so pleasing to him that he felt suddenly that he was immensely special, that there could be no one like him in the world.

~ Deborah Treisman

how irrelevant the belief in God can be to religious experience—so irrelevant that the emotional structure of religious experiences can be transplanted to completely godless contexts with little of the impact lost—and when he had also, almost as an afterthought, included as an appendix thirty-six arguments for the existence of God, with rebuttals, his claim being that the most thorough demolition of these arguments would make little difference to the felt qualities of religious experience

~ Rebecca Goldstein

However, you cannot force smokers to stop, and although all smokers secretly want to, until they are ready to do so a pact just creates additional pressure, which increases their desire to smoke. This turns them into secret smokers, which further increases the feeling of dependency.

~ Allen Carr

I think people get excited about their perspective on sexuality because it gives them the feeling that, their failures notwithstanding, if they take a hard stand on what they consider to be godly, maybe God will be more merciful to them.

~ Walter Wink

were under the very erroneous impression that we had money. Of

~ Lee Child

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 sides never get together and talk about it. The result is the tearing apart of the fabric of the body of Christ.

~ Walter Wink

The practical consequence of both of the teachings noted is to encourage homosexual promiscuity. Church members can engage in many short-term liaisons without raising questions about their standing in the church. We tend not to pry into one another's private lives. But if a man brings another man to church with him regularly, if they give the same address and show signs of mutual affection, then there is likely to be a scandal. The dominant effect of church teaching is to encourage secret, temporary liaisons without commitment and to discourage long-term fidelity.

~ Walter Wink

The moment you stop smoking, everything that goes wrong in your life is blamed on the fact that you’ve stopped smoking. Now when you have a mental block, instead of just getting on with it you start to say, ‘If only I could light up now, it would solve my problem.’ You then start to question your decision to quit smoking.

~ Allen Carr

veterans and remarkable rookies. International Thriller Writers, Inc. (ITW) cofounder, David

~ Lee Child

Or he’d watch the news: more plagues, more famines, more floods, more insect or microbe or small-mammal outbreaks, more droughts, more chickenshit boy-soldier wars in distant countries. Why was everything so much like itself?

~ Margaret Atwood

It is the truth that sets us free, and it is the truth that we must run with in order to continue our race in freedom.

~ Cynthia Heald

I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre. 

~ Charlotte Brontë

If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed (John 8:36).

~ Cynthia Heald

It has been observed that none are free indeed but those whom Christ makes free.

~ Cynthia Heald

As we admit our inadequacy to run the race alone and accept God's gracious redemption, then the race begins to have meaning, validity, and most of all, freedom.

~ Cynthia Heald

The man nodded and brought a bottle from the glass-fronted fridge

~ Ian Rankin