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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.
I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.
Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.
Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.
One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
A family's love is often the best medicine, and in difficult times, I believe that our military families deserve the option of staying together.
Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.
I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
One day, you might look up and see me playing the game at 50. Don't laugh. Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
I like experience in my side, but you need a balance and young players give you energy, pace and, often, a freshness which means they have no fear.
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
I don't subscribe to organised religion. I've travelled enough to see that adherents of organised religion often attack adherents of other religions.
In the post-industrial economy, ideas and great minds often provide far greater return on investment than any other resources or capital investments.
Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep. You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing.
People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
I play fictitious characters often solving fictitious problems. I believe mankind has looked at climate change in the same way, as if it were a fiction.
Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you.
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.
I'm not Rihanna. I'm not cool. When people come up to me in the street, they often want a hug, not a photo, and they want that because they like my work.
While the digital age has done so much to improve our world, it has dramatically changed our social structure, often further isolating us from each other.