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To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.
It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.
It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!
I have the best fans of any author in the country and they deserve the best from me, too!
Michael Jackson was the most astonishing person I've ever met on the face of this planet.
If the academic community gets its way, we will soon all be speaking with a single voice.
The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own.
When there’s only God to blame, we forgive him. When it’s our fellow man, we destroy him.
The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.
The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.
Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
Isn't it better to regret things you've done, than regret things you've never even tried?
Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.
I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
If you would rather pick a fight than solve a problem, do not consider leading the church
Nothing else in all life is such a maker of joy and cheer as the privilege of doing good.
The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.
Virtue and integrity are necessary for genuine happiness. Guard your integrity with care.
Ninety-nine point nine percent of all employees are in the pile because they don't think.
What the Commission is seeking cuts the heart out of the strategic rationale of our deal.
I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.
Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
Be rigorous about your HR decisions. There is a difference between rigorous and ruthless.
I don't think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.
Can you do that?” Thomas asked. “Huh?” “Kill someone three times.” “I’d figure out a way.
A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night
Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.
At that moment I had no mind to change, or not change, or throw against the nearest wall.
You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen
Yes, I sounded like a pathetic weenie. I prefer to think of it as showing my softer side.
In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.
You never truly know someone until you've stood in their shoes and walked around in them.
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
With his head in his hands, God thought and thought, Till he thought: I'll make me a man!
The easiest time to cure an illness is before it is accepted as a part of the self-image.
I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.
Don't let yourself be defined by the past. It's done. All you have is now and the future.
It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.