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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.
You can't win a congressional seat unless you have money. Even if you do, it's tick-tock, tick-tock until someone with more money beats you.
Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!
To be sure, President Clinton reached an accord called "The Agreement" in 1994 that purports to address some of President Reagan's concerns.
Canada has one great novelist (Robertson Davies), which means it has one for every twenty-five million citizens - the world's highest ratio.
There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.
It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations.
Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.
People are only concerned about the next party, meeting up for casual sex, finding a job as a Web page designer, or getting a new apartment.
Donald Trump manages to personalize everything. He brings chaos. He will not admit that he's ever made a mistake, that he's ever been wrong.
If Donald Trump does lose, being revealed as this bizarre personality, Ted Cruz is not going to be what Republicans are looking for in 2020.
If you're a public figure, and if you're working in the White House, you should expect everything you're saying in any context to be leaked.
Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you keep the payoff statement FOREVER.
People think that tests only come in the form of hardships. Allah also tests us with ease, it's often in the test of ease that we fail most.
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States and radio broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.
While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
I've tried several diets over the past couple of years - not because I need to lose weight, but because my pants are trying to cut me in two.
Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.
Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.
Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.
Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.
Parents and therapists offer unconditional love without needing it to be returned, yet both sides grow in love, understanding, and acceptance.
As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.
And on a completely different note I will NOT in fact be sharing my bra size, that was a very sleepy tweet last night but I ain`t no an A cup.
My father loves Las Vegas, and he loves to play craps. Growing up, I'd find old Caesars Palace chips in his pocket that he forgot to cash out.
My first piece of career advice is find your gifting. Find the thing that you are skilled at and figure out if you can make a living doing it.
The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.
Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards.
Sometimes we make duaa for a door of dunya. When it doesn't open, we cry. Not realizing that Allah has instead opened a door of jennah for us.
Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.
Half the trouble in the world arises from men trying to anticipate their time and season, and the other half from their trying to prolong them.
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.
If life is not a continuum, from conception to natural death, then all of us are potential victims if we fall out of favor with a ruling elite.
I am not in the camp of 'Russia has to be our enemy, and they have to be that way forever,' and I think sometimes we fight about from the past.
So far as Im concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.