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But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.
Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.
After the 9/11 attacks, I dutifully stocked up on rolls of duct tape and N-95 masks, as the government recommended.
Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.
Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.
I have come to understand what being a public person means. I don't let things I can't do anything about bother me.
I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.
Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands.
I don't think I suffer from Trump derangement syndrome in a sense that I can separate the man from the White House.
Science is about predictions based on predictable fact. Life is about surprises based on the unpredictable reality.
We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.
Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come.
Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards.
The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about.
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.
The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise
I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.
No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.
Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.
Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally.
I'm not sure Betsy DeVos has ever spent a day in a public school. And I don't - I'm pretty sure Donald Trump hasn't.
Working on a campaign and running for president should be a visceral, emotional, passionate, and intense experience.
You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.
It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.
Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.
Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing
At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.
This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life. And to yearn more for jennah. Allahu akbar
All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
There are a lot of things wrong with the country, and that doesn't mean America sucks. It means we should improve it.
Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.
Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.
The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.
I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.
If Democrats in Washington haven't got enough sense to own the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
The word spinster tells you everything that you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry, yes.
What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
It was a new kind of class war - the people as citizens versus the politicians and their clients in the public sector.
Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.
Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.