History is the best guide to the future.

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.

Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.

FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale. -W.A. Clark, ascribed

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45, 000, plus as much as $10, 000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust, ' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.

Its weird how i dream things that are worth writing.Its like God is writing them into my mind while i am sleeping and the moment i woke up i know i have to write what i dreamt

Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?

Although the infertile are entitled to sour grapes, it's against the rules, isn't it, to actually have a baby and spend any time at all on that banished parallel life in which you didn't.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

The oldest and most important currency is debt.

When one person mentors, two lives are changed.

I love this idea of shape-shifting and changing when you put on clothes, and turn into somebody else.