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So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.
The history of each and every territory is written in the blood of those who died trying to fulfill the aspirations of their ambitious leaders.
I wonder if there's just a sense that we have nothing to learn from any Supreme Court justice, including the great Chief Justice John Marshall.
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.
Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me crowd.
Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.
Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, "How can I make this person want to do it?
History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
Never, ladies, marry a fool. Any husband rather than a fool. With some other husband you may be unhappy, but with a fool you will be miserable.
There are people who do things in tech that have the same skill sets that journalists have. They write, they edit, they put out press releases.
I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty quickly, and we're never going to get over 9/11.
In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.
I know someone loves me from how they say my name. Like with my mom and dad, when they say "Benjamin" it's like my name is safe in their mouth.
When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.
Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language.
I may be nervous," I say. "Okay, I'm really glad you said that, because I just went to the back room to put on more deodorant." Sebastian says.
The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.
By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad
Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.
Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
I don’t know what I’m looking for.” “What not?” “Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be able to look for them.
It is pretty well settled that the city is the Negro's great contribution to civilization, for it was in Africa where the first cities grew up.
Jay Abraham's client sent him $50,000 a month for a long time for writing one headline. That's what people who understand communication can do.
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.
Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?
As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.
One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.
It's not a real name," she says. "Not one that he's carried with him always. It's one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.
Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was never a particularly good dancer.
We are two different people, Ethan. Just because you could never decide which one of us you were in love with does not make us interchangeable.
Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.
Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will, may enter.
That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.
When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.
How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.
The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.
In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.
In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.'
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal.
When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.
Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.
Choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything.