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Although economic grievances were critical in delivering the referendum result, Brexit has fomented an all-out culture war.
Austerity is literally a matter of life and death. Unless it is stopped, lives will continue to be unnecessarily shortened.
There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.
It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.
Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty.
The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.
Freedom is a messy affair, and sometimes people get their feelings hurt but we think the trade-off is worth the aggravation.
Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.
The annoying thing about being an atheist is that you'll never have the satifaction of saying to believers, 'I told you so.'
The greatest moral leader of my lifetime was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose private life does not bear close examination.
It is the stories we don't get, the ones we miss, pass over, fail to recognize, don't pick up on, that will send us to hell.
Before anything can break your heart, it must first own your heart. Stop handing your heart to dunya-it'll stop breaking it.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.
The organized person ... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.
We can't depend on consumers to spend money they don't have on stuff they don't need, so the government has to do it for them
Baseball ought never be hurried. It is the only unhurried institution we have left, which is one reason, I think, we love it.
The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.
Some fathers raise their daughters to be seen and not heard; they raise their daughters not to speak out. Raise strong women!
To mistake Midland for the volk heartland is the West Texas equivalent of assuming that Greenwich, Connecticut, is Levittown.
Nate Silver is now forecasting Oscar winners. The only area of life in which he has no expertise, ironically, is life itself.
Sometimes you have to be forced away from your work to realize youve made too much of it, to remember it doesnt define you.
There's so much living to be squeeze into the cracks of one little day. You can make someone laugh, smile, hope, sing, think.
It's ironic, but until you can free those final monsters within the jungle of yourself, your life, your soul is up for grabs.
My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.
Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.
Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.
Followers are the customers of the Higher Ground Leader, who strives to meet or exceed the outer and inner needs of followers.
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.
Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.
As a general rule, I wouldn't put anything in a text or e-mail or on social media that I wouldn't want the whole world to see.
Michael still thought of Havana as home, because he was born there. And he had been Miguel Arroya there. Here, he was Michael.
It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to.
Laws were changed and regulations repealed until an Enron can set sail without responsibility, supervision, or accountability.
Church attendance may be dipping, but God can survive the Internet age. After all, He knows a thing or two about resurrection.
There's a special place in my heart for the ones who were with me at my lowest and still loved me when I wasn't very loveable.
Time of difficulty test our faith, our fortitude and our strenght. During these times, the level of our imaan becomes manifest
By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.
I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.
You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.
Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.