But all they want to doIs tie the poem to a chair with ropeAnd torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hoseTo find out what it really means.
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Related By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem. - Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw... CHARLES BUKOWSKI How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Why ruin my sister's birthday simply because the entire planet was going to hell in a hand basket? T.C. BOYLE They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it. JAMES C. DOBSON It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I love you crookedly because my heart's been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instru... MATHIAS MALZIEU I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. DEBASISH MRIDHA Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. NANETTE L. AVERY Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving. LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others. SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask... JAY NORTHCOTE 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ... NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER What people ought to do is find out what a national park is to begin with. MICHAEL FROME Ladies,Please dress how you would like to be approached and talked to. Don't dress like a hoe and ex... UNKNOWN Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world. PEARL ZHU „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund MARLEN HAUSHOFER Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to ... LARRY MCMURTRY Better to feel nothing, to be numb, than to lose control. It's the only way I know to deal with it. JULIE KAGAWA Getting on with her life is important. But right now it may be more important to put the feelings ou... JENNIFER BROWN Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn... HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve... LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl... LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically... LEWIS N. ROE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE It would have been hard not to come out with a tie. BRAD ZEIGEL When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disre... RUSH LIMBAUGH His problem is that he doesn’t want anyone until he can have anyone he wants. CLIFFORD COHEN Live with a mission; act with passion. DEBASISH MRIDHA God, you smell nice,” he whispered. “I've missed that smell. I've missed everything about you, l... WENDY HIGGINS Be an initiator of change. Keep improving... To change is to improve; to become excellent is to keep... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI It gets down to a question of how proactive stakeholders in Fort Collins want to be in addressing th... STUART ANDERSON As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
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information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
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no proof for the
supernatural, but they
also have no proof
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Trying to get back to y... SUZANNE COLLINS But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a... SUZANNE COLLINS At a few minutes before four, Peeta turns to me again. "Your favorite colour . . . it's green?" SUZANNE COLLINS She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You... SUZANNE COLLINS I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i... SUZANNE COLLINS They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you. SUZANNE COLLINS That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ... SUZANNE COLLINS Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness. SUZANNE COLLINS I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have. SUZANNE COLLINS I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking. SUZANNE COLLINS Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Es... SUZANNE COLLINS Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Stra... SUZANNE COLLINS Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt... SUZANNE COLLINS I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial... SUZANNE COLLINS There are much worse games to play. SUZANNE COLLINS Some walks you have to take alone. SUZANNE COLLINS You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in y... SUZANNE COLLINS I must have loved you a lot. SUZANNE COLLINS Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us! SUZANNE COLLINS What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruct... SUZANNE COLLINS You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because t... SUZANNE COLLINS It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. SUZANNE COLLINS The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my fa... SUZANNE COLLINS For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first. SUZANNE COLLINS You here to finish me off, Sweetheart? SUZANNE COLLINS I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are... SUZANNE COLLINS Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the ... SUZANNE COLLINS And I said, 'A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, 'Bec... SUZANNE COLLINS I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver y... SUZANNE COLLINS Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour." "Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was th... SUZANNE COLLINS Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear. SUZANNE COLLINS Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra... SUZANNE COLLINS You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me. SUZANNE COLLINS Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone. SUZANNE COLLINS It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her la... SUZANNE COLLINS While I was waiting...I ate your lunch. SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off. Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final def... SUZANNE COLLINS