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One has to divide Warren Buffet into different periods. There is a continuously evolving style of Warren Buffett.
To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.
Let us not judge others, because we simply don't know that had we lived their life, we might be exactly the same.
The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.
Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.
The Savior will let you feel the love He feels for those you serve. The call is an invitation to become like Him.
It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.
Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.
I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.
You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.
Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.
The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.
Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.
In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud Shroud in their births.
Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!
Imagine the anticlimax of opening a novel you'd just got Dostoyevsky to sign and finding 'Keep smiling - Fyodor.'
"You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm."
The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.
With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.
The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
MAN: Kick him-he'll forgive you. Flatter him-he may or may not see through you. But ignore him and he'll hate you
I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body.
Dried peas and beans, being rather on the dull side, much like dull people respond readily to the right contacts.
If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it’s now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.
The Doctrine of Evolution states the fact that the present is the child of the past and the parent of the future.
True leadership is found in giving yourself in service to others, not in coaxing or inducing others to serve you.
The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.
Negative feelings are like weeds. If you don't fully extract them (i.e. pull out the roots), they will come back.
A man who is more concerned with being a good man than being good at being a man makes a very well-behaved slave.
To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
One could not always put safety up front as the prime goal. Do that, and who would ever achieve anything of note?
A person on dialysis undergoes very heavy and irritating treatment, and in time, it seems more than you can bear.