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It wasn't that I didn't trust Mark's flying, it was just that, okay, I didn't trust Mark's flying.
The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.
Let us praise even the slightest improvement. That inspires the other person to keep on improving.
Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money.
I love 30 Rock. It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
Apple is very, very good at almost everything it does, and that includes corporate communications.
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.
I had grown up as a fan of Studs Terkel. In Chicago he sort of looms large and is mentioned often.
The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same.
Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.
But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.
Children die every day because millions of us tell ourselves that caring is just as good as doing.
But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.
A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.
If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.
Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.
But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.
If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.
It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me.
Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.
He didn't know why he had become president of the galaxy, except that it seemed a fun thing to be.
If you want to get things you can't buy in a store, you have to do things never thought of before.
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.
When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.
Short-term and long-term results typically lead to different result, which are often the opposite.
So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.
The time has arrived when patience becomes a crime and mayhem appears garbed in a manner of virtue
Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?
They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.
Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.
Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.
Up to this day, there has been no proof of the existence of any intelligence other than the human.
So it’s really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.
A realization of the Presence of God is the most powerful healing agency known to the mind of man.
Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me.