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America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I'll never say to him aloud.
We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically.
I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.
The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.
I dont walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. Its worse than bleak, its apocalyptic.
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.
Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.
If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.
Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.
If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.
Imitate until you emulate; match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Solve 90% of the problem as simply as you can, and then remove the other 10% from the problem requirements.
One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.
You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.
... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.
Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.
Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.
Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.
Softball is the reason Washing Machines and Bleach are so popular. Don't think so? Just ask a softball Mom.
Astronauts are like these mythic legends, but really, they are just regular people, people who wear chinos.
See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.
Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you.
They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.
And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.
The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.
A healthy strong ego, with plenty of self-esteem, does not feel itself threatened by every innocent remark.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
To know and not to do is in fact not to know. We need to be active instruments against evil. We need to do.
On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.
I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.
I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.
To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself
there’s too much tension in the world… what hope is there in the middle east if you and i can’t make peace.
It's so much easier to convince yourself you're madly in love with someone when you know nothing about him.
We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.