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While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.
Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.
We have every reason in time and eternity to rejoice and give thanks for the quality of our lives and the blessings we have been given.
I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.
Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer.
My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground - to die.
Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.
We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.
the inventor of the plow did more good than the maker of the first rosary - because, say what you will, plowing is better than praying.
They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.
Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.
The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
Vice presidents are supposed to be eternally loyal, which is why it is so difficult for some to figure out how to succeed their bosses.
Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.
Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.
Certain people have wanted to put me behind bars for a long time now. That's part of my work. If I were afraid, I couldn't do what I do.
You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of sex; they were not coerced enough.
The race problem in the United States is the type of unpleasant problem which we would rather do without but which refuses to be buried.
The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.
Wars always bring about a conservative reaction. They overwhelm and destroy patient and careful efforts to improve the condition of man.
I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.
The Egyptian military and the government of Israel have long had a common interest in maintaining order and fighting terrorism in Sinai.
There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.
The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.
Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered.
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.
We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.
Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.
Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.
One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation.
The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.
Find out if your girlfriend is a feminist before you get too far into it. Some of them are pretty. They don't all look like Bella Abzug.
We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.
I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.
I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.
The Iranian government intends to use the nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but must convince international public opinion of that.
Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.
The way my father worked altruistically and the manner in which he used to go behind bars and come back home smilingly was inspirational.
I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.
We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.
The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy.
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.
There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us.
I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.
Perseverance is demonstrated by those who keep going when the going gets tough, who don’t give up even when others say, It can’t be done.