The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife--chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now it's complete because it's ended here'.

Frank Herbert, Muad'Dib in Dune

Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

Ozwald Boateng

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Euripides

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

Les Brown

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

A man surprised is half beaten.

Thomas Fuller

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Maya Angelou

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

Anne Rice

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

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Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.

Eric Hoffer

The grandmother, the mother, the worker, the student, the intellectual, the professional, the unemployed, everybody identified with the songs because they were descriptions of life in the city.

Ruben Blades