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A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.
In Beverley Hills, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into television shows.
Where as gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, it comes an evil guest unto those that receive it in their hand.
We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.
I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.
It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood….Make big plans…aim high in hope and work.
Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.
Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,-and that was wrong.
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play.
