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The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

They found a cave once lived in by Osama bin Laden and the only thing in the cave were some boxer undershorts, and macaroni. I'm telling you, you add an old stack of Playboys, this could be my place. It's like I have a twin.

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

They say you have to get and stay sober for yourself, and of course I agree with that, but I've really appreciated the added stakes of having someone relying on me for survival. My daughter makes me want to do right. That doesn't mean I won't relapse again. It's happened to me before. But she adds a layer of love in my life that I've never known.

They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?

Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and of his masters profits. The labour of a menial servant, on the contrary, adds to the value of nothing.

Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the weight. So instead, I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true.

Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.

They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news - from your life.

To add to the technostructure is to increase its power in the enterprise.

To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.

To add growth, lead followers - to multiply, lead leaders.

To be learned, add something each day. To be enlightened drop something each day.

To put one brick upon another, Add a third, and then a fourth, Leaves no time to wonder whether What you do has any worth.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

To speak of the Blessed Sacrament is to speak of what is most sacred. How often, when we are in a state of distress, those to whom we look for help leave us; or what is worse, add to our affliction by heaping fresh troubles upon us. He is ever there waiting to help us.

To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble.

Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally the more times a song has been passed down the generations the more brilliant and concise it becomes as every link in that chain can add something good or remove something unnecessary.

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending a few nights reading about the culture and history of the place you are visiting. This is what most of us don't do - we fling ourselves on an exotic destination hoping that someone will tell us what we are looking at, but by that time it's too late, and all the lectures and tour guides simply add to our confusion.

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.

To worry is to add another hazard.

Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not thoughts to things.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Train children to bear responsibility as you would train them to build muscle. Add what they can handle, then prepare them for more.

To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine.

TV is a language all its own, a land of one dimensional stereotypes that destroys culture, not adds to it. TV is anti-art, a reflection of consumerism that serves the power structure. TV is about demographics.

Ultimately, clean lines have greater longevity, which women appreciate, and to which they can add their own personality

TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a policy never to eat TV cameras.

Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.

Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.

Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened.

We are experiencing new problems every day and whatever we do adds to the richness of our cultural heritage as long as it has man as its centre

We are like artists by nature, constantly we're trying to add beauty to movements.

We can have tax cuts, but when we have tax cuts and do not have a surplus, the amount of the tax cut goes straight to the bottom line, adds to the deficit, and the deficit adds to the national debt, and sooner or later, the debt has to be paid.

We decided that it was imperative for us to use our resources to create a new paradigm: one in which business operates to add value to society - without compromising the well-being of future generations.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.