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I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.
A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'
Anyone who's in the magazine business thinks about advertisers when they write about something. And anyone who says they don't is a liar.
Best-selling writers should go to bookstores to say thanks to the booksellers, to meet fans, sign autographs, sign books, talk, whatever.
You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going.
As consumer adoption of wireless devices continues to soar, Wi-Fi congestion is becoming a critical problem for consumers and innovators.
Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.
A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.
India's blood and India's gold was sought and unfortunately given - given to break Turkey and buy the fetters of the Rowlatt legislation.
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.
I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.
There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young, the strong.
A good way to make children tell the truth is to tell it yourself. Keep your word with your child the same as you would with your banker.
Whoever labors for the happiness of those he loves elevates himself, no matter whether he works in the dreary shop or the perfumed field.
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the truth - about others.
The value of getting to your goals lives not in reaching the goal but what the talents/strengths/capabilities the journey reveals to you.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
There is a vast need for all types of protest today, whether it be civil disobedience, or whether it be on a - more conventional variety.
It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.
Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.
Organized groups claiming roots in religious ideologies have unleashed an all-pervasive fear of mob violence in many parts of the country.
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.
There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.
Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples of Jesus came from all walks of life.
The great vicarious work for our kindred dead in our temples demonstrates both the justice and the fairness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.
It's very early in the market. I don't want to pretend I know exactly how this rolls out. But there's been an enormous amount of interest.
Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable.
Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguard connections and keep everyone happy.
Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.
If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.
I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leader at the time, Yasser Arafat, supported it.
I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.
I obviously grew up with politics and have always been interested in ways in which people can get involved with it and be stimulated by it.
I happen to agree with many of President Obama's policies, but in our system, it is often as important how you do something as what you do.
In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity...I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.
There's no better way of learning from your experiences than having an open and honest conversation with yourself about why you fell short.
Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths
That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.
Whether elected or appointed, public officials serve those who put and keep them in office. We cannot depend upon them to fight our battles.
We're all killers at heart . . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.