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The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.

In court, judges tell people that their conviction carries a sentence of years, or probation. The truth is far more terrible. People convicted of crimes often become social outcasts for life, finding it difficult or impossible to rent an apartment, get a job, adopt children, access public benefits, serve on juries, or vote.

We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it.

God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

Make a stir-fried rice dish with some cut-up chicken and any vegetables folded into the rice for a 'one pot' meal lunch that has it all - protein, starch and vegetables.

When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.

People try to bring negativity into my life, but it's crazy how I deflect it.

As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

All things are difficult before they are easy

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.