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Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.
What is the most popular scene in the Bible? Adam and Eve biting the apple. It's not there.
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
At last we are in it up to our necks, and everything is changed, even your outlook on life.
The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.
Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.
You don't have doubts when you get offered 'Question Time.' You think, thank you very much.
Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.
I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. Ill plead guilty to that.
I don't see a point in advertising my marital status when men don't. Completely ridiculous.
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.
Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob
Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.
Secretary of State Colin Powell, thank you so much, as always, for joining us this morning.
I literally couldn't get anyone to hire me. Having a woman do sports was seen as too risky.
There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.
Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.
The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary.
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.
The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.
There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
Human beings are the center of the universe from only one perspective, and that is our own.
Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.
In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.
'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity.
A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.
New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.
I've never been a fan of loans between relatives or friends. They can divide relationships.
Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.
Marriage Asian-style is practical, contractual and, to the western mind, deeply unromantic.
To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow - that is the secret to being happy.
It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican.
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.
Even the U.S. government agrees that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIL, or ISIS.
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.