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Both cream and scum can rise to the top, unfortunately. This lower-quality stuff that's going higher isn't doing it on fundamentals.
It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.
For too many of our young people, that once-promised American dream has given way to an American debt burden and a bleak job market.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.
Nothing fails like success. Because when you are at the top, it's so easy to stop doing the very things that brought you to the top.
We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.
Then you got Newt Gingrich up here who - didn't he leave his wife while she was dying to marry the next wife? Give me a break, Newt.
We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
Difficulty need not foreshadow despair or defeat. Rather achievement can be all the more satisfying because of obstacles surmounted.
My goal is always to keep support for Israel a bi-partisan issue and never make a national election any kind of referendum on Israel.
Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.
I am so proud of Pakistanis and specifically of our lawyers for speaking out and getting their heads bashed in for a better Pakistan.
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.
It's a matter of priorities. Do you want to win, or would you like to sleep? Do you want to win, or would you like to take a day off?
The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.
If you're trying to talk about public issues and politics and showcase it in a positive, different way, I think people like the idea.
Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.
All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.
I think that feeling of being thrown into the deep end and doing something you never thought you would accomplish is really powerful.
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both borrower and lender.
Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud
The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!
There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
We have to think creatively about changes that need to be made in the workplace to accommodate the growing demands on the work force.
I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.
A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.
Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.
The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the Dubai Ports World fiasco in 2006.
Arab states continue to send the Palestinians gifts of extravagant rhetoric and countless Arab League resolutions - but not much cash.
As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.
Being happily and successfully married is generally not so much a matter of marrying the right person as it is being the right person.
Young women should realize that young men they date will not honor and respect them if they have been involved in moral transgression.
To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.
The reality is Hicks is facing an unfair justice system that is not tolerated anywhere else in the world, so where does that leave him
What I am afraid of is... Gandhi. He has brains and always tried to put me in the wrong. I have to be on guard and alert all the time.
Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.
The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.
Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower and lender both.
Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.
I had many of the trappings of success. I was a lawyer. I drove a nice car and I had nice things. But "things" don't make a rich life.
This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.
Even the most powerful women I know go out of their way to say that they're not really interested in power. Imagine a man saying that.
I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.
There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.