This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from poster...

Juvenalius has problems... though like most kids on the threshold of sexual awareness he only knows life sucks... he isn't clear about why. His mother rants on and on about the iniquity of his school...

Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending on the kind of message you are feeding the world with.

It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized world since man established his dominion over the sea.

Purchasing a large and expensive home during a real estate boom turned into the biggest financial mistake that I ever made.

Not taking the Bible (or other texts based on 'revealed truths') literally leaves it up to the reader to cherry-pick elements for belief. There exists no guide for such cherry-picking, and zero religi...

Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known.

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

I arrived in the USA in 2001 and by 2015 I knew through experience that I was living in a country of corporate incompetence and blatant frauds.

... You asked how am I?? Really?? So you care about me?? or you just decided to ask to return it back because people have learnt you to return everything back, what he has done to you to do the same t...

God can allow you to pass through storms and get to your success. But what the devil loves to do is to make you not to realize it that the storm is over. He wishes to keep you in condemnation even at...

If you want to lead a pleasant life, be good to yourself; if you want to lead a happy life, be good to others; and if you want to lead an exceptional life, be good to everyone.

As per the law of karma, that which is your meat today, this dear beloved animal will make mincemeat of you tomorrow. In another birth.

The fervor and single-mindedness of this deification probably have no precedent in history. It's not like Duvalier or Assad passing the torch to the son and heir. It surpasses anything I have read abo...

You know, I sometimes think that we Sort too soon....

Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Groundhog found fog. New snows and blue toes. Fine and dandy for Valentine candy. Snow spittin'; if you're not mitten-smitten, you'll be frostbitten! By jing-y feels spring-y.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.