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Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.
Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.
There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
The purpose of whistleblowing is to expose secret and wrongful acts by those in power in order to enable reform.
Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.
It's not easy to work with me, I recognize that. It's not easy if those people aren't as perfectionistic as I am.
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
The joy of being a chameleon on stage is that you can be anything, and yet you're not any of those things as well.
The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.
Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.
Sometimes it's easy to go where the wind blows, but those that stand firmly planted are forces to be reckoned with.
I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
You can be whoever you want to be. Don't let those voices or noises, whether they're inside or outside, distract you.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.
A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.
Our life is the sum total of all the decisions we make every day, and those decisions are determined by our priorities.
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
When I was younger I did karate and martial arts, and I think it's really cool for girls to have those kinds of abilities.
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.