Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.
Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share of their revenues.
When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.
When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.
I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.
Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.
Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.
The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as well.
Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.
Expressive speech, with modulation in pitch and volume, and a minimum of noticeable pauses, boosts credibility and enhances the impression of intelligence.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
