Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
O Lord, how long will you look on?
Rescue my life from their ravages,
my precious life from these lions.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too, but there will be no special hurry.
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world. Perhaps you've seen it.
All of us are born with a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country ... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear ...fear and surprise... Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency... Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope... Our four... no... Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry... are such elements as fear, surprise... I'll come in again.
Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being the villain in a James Bond movie.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not selfseeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Nyquil: the night time, sneezing, coughing, why-in-the-heck-am-I-hallucinating medicine.
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.
Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.
I highly recommend you divert your eyes if you should happen to see me outside… the glare of the sun off of my pale skin has resulted in at least 7 known cases of temporary blindness
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
I admire restraint the same way I admire moderation. Secondhand and at a distance.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Each one of us is setting an example for some one else, and each one of us has a responsibility to shape the future as we wish it to be.
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
A consultant is a man who knows how to make love in 200 ways. But he doesn't know any women.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives you the test first, the lesson afterward.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred.
In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current.
Kindness in words creates confidence,
kindness in thinking creates profoundness,
kindness in giving creates love.
When Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Star, he wasn’t cheering because he had done some good deed. He was cheering for all the xp he got.
There once was a router so crappy
That it made all the Bloggers unhappy
It caused pagers to be beep
And kept us from sleep
So we smashed it on the ground with golf clubs and threw paving stones at it and kicked it and someone filmed part of it but that’s not up yet and then we dropped it off a dumpster and kicked it again and gathered up the parts and sent them to be recycled quite snappy
Only the savage regard the endurance of pain as the measure of worth.
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
This party is old and uninviting, participants all in black and white, you enter in full blown Technicolor.
Logic? What are they teaching in schools these days?
I fear my time is short. There are armies moving close. Be quick, my love...
Politics I suppose to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much --the wheel, New York, wars and so on-- whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy man. He will find an easier way to do it.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
One of the lessons of history is that 'nothing' is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we’ve done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in.
Just an interesting observation ... in an observationally interesting kind of way.
An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
If [the atheist] does not see the sun in the sky at midday, he cannot sue me because I see it and he does not.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
O, I have passed a miserable night,
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night,
Though 't were to buy a world of happy days.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Oh thou invisible spirit of wine.
If thou hadst no name to be known by,
let us call thee devil.
Wise sayings sometimes fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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