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The first Embassy to Afghanistan by a western power left the Company's Delhi Residency on 13 October 1808, with the Ambassador accompanied by 200 calvary, 4,000 infantry, a dozen elephants and no fewer than 600 camels. It was dazzling, but it was als...

Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan

No doubt your sword is indeed a beautiful thing. It is a tribute to whoever forged it in bygone ages. There are very few such swords as this one left in the world, but remember, it is only a sword, Matthias! It contains no secret spell, nor holds wit...

Redwall

Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 18 "laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old Ones say that one of the greatest healing powers in our life is the ability to laugh." --Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA Laughter is a good st...

Two Cultures Meet: Pathways For American Indians To Medicine

In front of the law there is a doorkeeper. A man from the countryside comes up to the door and asks for entry. But the doorkeeper says he can't let him in to the law right now. The man thinks about this, and then he asks if he'll be able to go in lat...

The Trial

You don't want some tacky Vegas fly-by. You're serious. You're serious about friendships, about your work, your family. You're serious about Star Wars, and you active dislike of Jar Jar Binks---" "Well, God. Come on, anyone who---" "You're serious," ...

Tribute

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us...During the past decade, women breached the power structure; meanwhile, eating disorders r...

Naomi Wolf

To be a critical reader means for me: (1) to affirm the enduring power of the Bible in my culture and in my own life and yet (2) to remain open enough to dare to ask any question and to risk any critical judgement. Nothing less than both of these poi...

Robert M. Fowler

I am just coming from my visit to Japan, where I exhorted this young nation to take its stand upon the higher ideals of humanity and never to follow the West in its acceptance of the organized selfishness of Nationalism as its religion, never to gloa...

Rabindranath Tagore

I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me. I don't believe in life after death, channeled chat rooms with the dead, reincarnation, te...

Natalie Angier

All knowledge that takes special training to acquire is the province of the Magician energy. Whether you are an apprentice training to become a master electrician and unraveling the mysteries of high voltage; or a medical student, grinding away night...

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

Wal-Mart is so large, its reach so great, that it has created an ecosystem in which its suppliers and competitors, and their suppliers and competitors, and their customers, all operate. Wal-Mart sets the metabolism, it sets the rules, of that ecosyst...

The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy

Sirius Black: Fudge is using all his power, including his influence at the Daily Prophet, to smear anyone who claims the Dark Lord has returned. Harry Potter: Why? Remus Lupin: The Minister thinks Dumbledore's after his job. Harry Potter: But that's ...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Darth Sidious: I have waited a long time for this moment, my little green friend. At last, the Jedi are no more. Yoda: Not if anything to say about it I have! [Yoda force flings Darth Sidious across the room and across his desk] Yoda: At an end your ...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Mace Windu: [has Palpatine subdued] I'm going to put an end to this, once and for all! Anakin Skywalker: You can't. He must stand trial. Mace Windu: He has control of the senate and all the courts. He is too dangerous to be left alive! Supreme Chance...

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

We never really went to church so AA is the closet thing I had to religion. And secretly, I do like it. All you have to do at AA is: Come to believe that a power greater than yourself can restore you to sanity. That's it. You don't have to believe th...

Wendy Wunder

The tyrant has power to play as long as he is the master in his surroundings.

The Conflation: Politics and Politrics Beyond the Ecstasy

All people who come to the dark come for power.

Coffee, Tea, and Holy Water: One Woman's Journey to Experience Christianity Around the Globe

But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

A Canticle for Leibowitz

The light of revelation cannot shine through the fire of anger." (HS/el)

A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

Cities of the Plain

It takes more energy to be negative than positive for negativity is a burden carried." EL

A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power