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Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
I think [Newt] Gingrich who`s been the - among the truth tellers to [Donald] Trump, I think, in public, take a listen.
I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!
Those of you watching and listening, get a cup of coffee or a spot of tea and join us back here in just a few moments.
What led to my change of views about the Clintons was working through the research and writing on the book on Hillary.
I do think John Kerry has tried awfully hard to work with Russia and others to have a lasting, significant cease-fire.
More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers.
Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.
Sodomy is in the Bible, to be read in churches. I wouldn't rule it out of Mr. Bruce's act if he cares to comment on it
I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I hope I can beat the men.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
I think for real change to happen, it's going to have to come from the kids, the community, the teachers, the parents.
During my school visits, I really enjoy the feedback I get from them much more than anything I might tell say to them.
To me, nuclear weapons are the secret crisis of our time. Frankly, everyone needs to reread John Hersey's 'Hiroshima.'
Normal people with normal lives are not going to ask for sugar-free yogurt. They just take the stuff with sugar in it.
The problem is that Islam does not have a pope, so there's no one guy to say, 'This isn't kosher'...Not that he would.
In Nigeria, along with its West African neighbor Ghana, women are now starting businesses in greater numbers than men.
...science is confirming what we know in our hearts: that, as psychiatrist James Gordon put it," massage is medicine."
Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.
Human beings have an unalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves; when that right is pre-empted it is called brain-washing.
A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.
Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.
Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.
It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.
...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.
The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.
Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.
At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.
I do know that whenever a player hits the ball out of the park, I have a sense of elation. I feel as if I had done it.
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Children are like TV sets. When they start acting weird, whack them across the head with a big rubber basketball shoe.
Journalism is "a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world of misfits and drunkards and failures.
I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.
Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.
The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.
You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times of Willie Donaldson.
The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.
It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.