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There are some traditions connected with it.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
The weather is not the same in different countries.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Behind the cine-ma screen there is a stage, so that the building can be used for concerts and other performances.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
It?s beautiful place, with parks, lakes, big open streets and fine buildings.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I like to watch films very much. I prefer thrillers, comedies and horror movies, but I do not like tragedies and melodramas very much, and I hate soap operas, although they are becoming very popular in our country.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Do you want to be an organizer of other people's activities?
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
