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Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.

A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.

All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

A lot of Americans have some view of the Constitution as just this thing that was handed down [intact]. But it really was the result of months and months of wrangling and disputation and ultimately compromise. That's where the brilliance of the American system is -- it's always been built on compromise.

A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

Ambassador Mulford has made wide-ranging intervention in the internal affairs of India. To say the least, it is very unfortunate. It confirms our earlier apprehension that he is directly interfering in India's internal affairs.

American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we've never known what to do with this part of the Bible. The more we succeed, the more we're seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

Are there any vegetarians among cannibals?

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.

As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

As the last drops fell from the glass to my tongue, I wondered - only for an instant - what perhaps I'd never know. What would it taste like, what would it feel like, if that liquid sliding down my throat was not champagne. But the elixir of life. Katheine Neville.

As with nearly all proposed development standards, the goal is to encourage efficient land use, flexibility and a wide variety of housing types while reducing the potential for negative impacts.

At bank, post office or supermarket, there is one universal law which you ignore at your own peril: the shortest line moves the slowest.

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

A tyrant does not remain in the world; But the curse on him abides forever!

Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.

Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.

Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.

Blushes are the rainbow of modesty.

Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.

But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off.

By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?

Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.

Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

Contraries are cured by contraries.

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.