A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.

Author: Earl Blumenauer

Author: Earl Blumenauer

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Hatred and Blessing cannot coexist in the same heart.

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I am bold as a lion.

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Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is

Author: Erin McKean
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You didn’t fail, you just didn’t use Cosmic Ordering.

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Pray and fast for your ministry, proclaim it and prophesy victory to yourself

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He said to people: you’re free. And they said hooray, and then he showed them what freedom costs and

Author: Terry Pratchett
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Jonah can't see how Assyria could serve any useful purpose. How could this commission better Israel?

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My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I love goin

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Nothing but courage can guide life.

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So I fight. I fight the only way I know, with thinking of Ky, even thought the pain of missing him i

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A woman's strength comes from finding solace in peace and earning respect in silence...

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Obviously she's the kind of woman who gives people the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to assume bad

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Unconditional conditions are sometimes conditioned to conditionally exist.

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The time groaned by as John made a fool of himself. Eventually, he grew numb to the death and sin ar

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I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famo

Author: John Hurt
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Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.

Author: Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
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I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

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New York had pushed and bent and bullied, driving me underground to sort out the madness and sculpt

Author: David B. Lentz
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The rich believe that their money will insulate them from setbacks and frustrations, and that's one

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Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in educa

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Recovered. Had my personality crossed over that border, whatever and wherever it was, to resume life

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reje

Author: Carl Sagan
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Ignorance is not linear, it's exponential.

Author: Spuds Crawford
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Ethics change with technology.

Author: Larry Niven
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The only way to escape the feeling of loneliness is to just be silent

Author: Sonya Withrow
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Any fool can kill. It takes genius to create.

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What if, as an act of worship, creating something meant healing and restoration took place instead o

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Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doin

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We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march t

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Fashion shows are really my way of communication.

Author: Dries van Noten
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This world is not here for you

Author: Unknown
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We have inherited from our forefathers the keen longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.

Author: Erwin Schrödinger
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What's really weird is my mom's clothes smell like her. I mean, her perfume, and so all day it's lik

Author: Frances O'Roark Dowell
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Butch hesitated. "Annabeth's okay. You gotta cut her some slack. She had a vision telling her to com

Author: Rick Riordan
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As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just ha

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... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if the

Author: Jane Green
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I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see i

Author: Clyde Tombaugh
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Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing--with wave lengths, just as sound and light have. An evil

Author: Richard Connell
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Category No. 3: Two aces with a low card.

Author: Ray Zee
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My love for you reaches beyond the borders of continents, so vast in scope that I would cross oceans

Author: Richelle E. Goodrich
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When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.

Author: W. H. Auden
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Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it? You doubt your value. Don't run f

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Quote #59084

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

Author: Ellen DeGeneres
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Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans valu

Author: Brad Henry
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It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It alwa

Author: Larry McMurtry
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It is values that dictate your responses.

Author: Sunday Adelaja
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If we are put here on this earth for our learning, then it's safe to say that life is a school and t

Author: Kayko Tamaki
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... one would like to be both [loved and feared], but as it is difficult to combine both love and fe

Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
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I think I understand something about space. I think the job of a sculptor is spatial as much as it i

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In the beginning God made the seas, the mountains, the heavens, and buffalo knees. He made lilies, a

Author: Lois Greiman
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Mature Woman: Is a woman who has lived her life enough to understand what she wants, and she is conf

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God, please give us more grace!

Author: Unknown
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The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them hap

Author: Gene Simmons
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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, an

Author: Rita Mae Brown
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The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.

Author: William Shakespeare
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Love looks through a telescope envy through a microscope.

Author: Josh Billings
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Learn to feel good and you will realize that your life becomes better…

Author: Latika Teotia
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Males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

Author: Jodi Picoult
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And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as th

Author: Graeme Murphy
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If you can't tolerate the truth, never ask me a question.

Author: Richard Diaz
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I smile when I want to cry. I laugh when I want to die.

Author: Donna Lynn Hope
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Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering in joy and in effort.

Author: Albert Schweitzer
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I had tried to express myself, but couldn't do that because I was afraid that it will hurt someone.

Author: Nutan Bajracharya
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I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has nev

Author: Elizabeth Hurley
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Music heals miserable heart.

Author: Unknown
Quote #151125

Reality—there’s nothing but horror in that.

Author: A.L. Kennedy
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You can only predict things after they have happened.

Author: Eugène Ionesco
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Even if we can't be happy we must always be cheerful.

Author: Irving Kristol
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The most successful people I know are also the most reliable.

Author: Wayne Gerard Trotman
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A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transf

Author: Himmilicious
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God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate o

Author: Randy Alcorn
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My sense of self has expanded and contracted like a schizophrenic accordion. I have questioned every

Author: Sera J. Beak
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It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experi

Author: Linda M. Godwin
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He became...the ideal of that virtue which delights in its own work...doing everything with simplici

Author: Honoré de Balzac
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As surely as wherever the darkness is not, there you will find the light; wherever the ego is not, t

Author: Jennifer Sweete
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You’re practically begging for it, aren’t you?” he murmured.“No.”His chuckle rasped over her senses.

Author: Kelly Jamieson
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Luckily we don't sleep standing. Who knows where the dream will take us!

Author: Ljupka Cvetanova
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Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely

Author: Wladimir Klitschko
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How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’‘We h

Author: Alastair Reynolds
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Emma is not a person

Author: Unknown
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Open your umbrella of creativity when glaring heat of adversity hits you unaware." ~ Angelica Hopes,

Author: Angelica Hopes
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And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was v

Author: Keith Richards
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When you think about the day-to-day, positive impact on the lives of U.S. citizens, there is no rela

Author: Paul Cellucci
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A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

Author: Carter Glass
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Today and every day: I offer the universe my love I offer the universe my peace I offer the univer

Author: Debasish Mridha
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The mind and the spirit can be detached from the physical body in deep meditation. Once the mind and

Author: Roshan Sharma
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Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without t

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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I was emotionally scarred we could not get it away

Author: Corinne Bailey Rae
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I am blessed. I can bless.

Author: Ann Voskamp
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Ted Cruz may be an intelligent person, but he doesn't carry out an intelligent debate. He oversimpli

Author: Peter T. King
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I’d give you – if I thought one day you might return my feelings …

Author: Eliza Granville
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When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, righ

Author: Scott Douglas
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Truth, meanwhile, was a weaponthat even a damaged fist could still grasp and wield. It was a remarka

Author: Mark Allen Smith
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Half my life is an act of revision.

Author: John Irving
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Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life,

Author: George Muller
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Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate

Author: Steven Magee
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There's more to life than cause and effect.

Author: Amy Zhang
Quote #10963

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where y

Author: Germany Kent
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Angels only care about what you look like on the inside. A pure heart is the vessel that contains a

Author: Molly Friedenfeld