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silence across the field. When they reached the edge of the forest, Claire’s anxiety faded. It really would be easier
Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics.
No object, no event, no outcome or life circumstance can deliver real happiness to us. We have to make our own happiness—by working hard at activities that provide their own reward.15
Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Moroccan bazaar. But we knew our way around.
I want you out in the hallway, against the far wall in single file, ready to move, in fifteen. Drop your fartsack, Ratliff.
The challenge, it turns out, isn’t in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by. The challenge is getting into the habit of
We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.
This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.
I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:
I threw back my head, my hair falling about me like a great red curtain, and cried out. My eyes felt hot and burned with tears as my body trembled with the passion for blood.
Sin and the effects of sin are similar to the laws of inertia: a person (or object) in motion will continue on that trajectory until acted upon by an outside force.
I had never been so extravagantly proud of having blood that clotted.
that you will become entrapped in someone else’s recent careless thoughts.
about: Don’t post anonymously unless you really might be in danger.
Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.
Well, if you’re a real alcoholic, then where are you stashing it? That's what real alcoholics do, right? Hide bottles?
Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.
One common mistake we see new entrepreneurs especially tech entrepreneurs making is focusing too much on product
What, then, are some of the shifts that have happened in our understanding of the composing process that make a focus on digital writing in the writing workshop that much more compelling?
Picard only saw the movie, which had the entire Tales of the Black Starship subplot removed for time.
I think we’re losing sight of what our ultimate goal is here, ” said Genevieve. But we feared that if she was washed out, people would look right past the flyer.
The student asks: If my redstone necklace had every view of every veil that ever brightened, would I be wise? The master answers: If I had a thousand pieces of a priceless vase, would I be rich?
the pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.
John Andrew Holmes, “No exercise is better for the human heart than reaching down and lifting another up.
The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.
If you are prepared, ” he told his players, “you will be confident, and will do the job.
For Madison, on the other hand, “a Public Debt is a Public curse, ” and “in a Representative Government greater than in any other.”26
Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts.
at Florence which included diplomatic missions to various European courts. Imprisoned
Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.” And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.
Only once in the historical record has a jump on the San Andreas exceeded the jump of 1906. In 1857, near Tejon Pass outside Los Angeles, the two sides shifted thirty feet.
In retrospect, I now believe this expected donation of ten percent of income to the Fellowship was based on bad exegesis of an old Jewish taxation law that Jesus Himself seemed to completely ignore.
The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.
Simply read a child’s story that he or she is writing for school, and you will discover some of the inner struggles with which the young person is trying to cope.
as self-knowledge develops, we begin to care more about what we think and less about what others ask of us. We
The bigoted, the narrow minded, the stubborn, and the perpetually optimistic have all stopped learning.
because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly
Living on purpose means stopping to make sure your actions still match your big goals.
Categories No. 4 and No. 5: Three small cards to a straight and two small cards with an ace.
our countrymen are starving, she is decorating herself with diamond aigrettes!
customers away. The Palais-Royal has become a veritable den of iniquity,
the day is all about getting connected.