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I have a real problem keeping friends. I'm always running out of space in my freezer.

There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

Moral codes are like the ocean. Some people live by them, while others, such as myself, would rather live by a lake.

There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

I have discovered that the easiest way to make my nose appear smaller is to wear a Speedo on my head.

There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

The only time I really think is when I smoke, and I quit smoking years ago.

There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

He looks like a runway model. How in the world am I going to be able to reject that? The world is so unfair. Seriously, it's like turning Brad Pitt down for a date. The girl who could actually do it should win an award for idiot of the century.

Tiger's Curse

Risk management seemed to have completed its transformation into pure entertainment. Dudley seemed the epitome of a risk manager who would drown crossing a river that was 12 inches in depth .

Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives

I’m world famous. Throughout the globe—north, south, east, and west—there are literally four people who know my name. It’s great to have all four grandparents still living, and widely dispersed around the world.

This Book Title is Invisible

Well more than two thirds of the press releases from Douglas MacArthur's command reference only one person – himself.

Pearl Harbor Christmas: A World at War, December 1941

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, our sense of ourselves in the world. (p. 40)

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away

The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’ to define language that speaks the truth. Eduardo Galeano

Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You With Blessings

Maybe that is the greatest of wonders: that we can be shaped so much by those we've known closely, and equally by those we've never known at all - and that we too can change the world long after we've left it.

Phoning Home: Essays

I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice.

Pro-Voice: How to Keep Listening When the World Wants a Fight

To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a langua...

Palimpsest

Our challenge is to join forces of the old and the new- experience and experiment, history and destiny, the world of man and the new world of science- but always in accordance with the never-changing word of God.

Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment's concern-- and the world in general would have too much sense to join in the scorn.

Pride and Prejudice

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

Postscript to the Name of the Rose

You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in and lie in front of the fire like a string of sausages.

The Private World of Tasha Tudor

The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making, power, success) and relativize what is absolute (truth, moral values, and God).

The Privilege of Being a Woman

Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his Son's image.

A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

Open-plan offices have been found to reduce productivity and impair memory. They’re associated with high staff turnover. They make people sick, hostile, unmotivated, and insecure.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Other candidates may say they have 10 years of real-world experience, but I say, What, did they work nonstop with no sleep for a decade? If that’s the case, then I am an expert sleeper with a decade of surreal-world experience.

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