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No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don’t think you can think about that. I don’t think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.
President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God’s truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.
If we don’t make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.
Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point – even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.
Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don’t like the shop trading hours and you’re a shop owner, you don’t have to open.
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy’s playing blues like we play, he’s in high school. When he starts playing jazz it’s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
You know, the sad thing of post-9/11, which was of course horrific, was that the city in which I felt completely at home for two decades, suddenly people like us – brown people – were looked at as the ‘Others.’
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
I do wish I could tell you my age but it’s impossible. It keeps changing all the time.
Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.
Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it’s there forever.
It is not classified as a pagan religion. The so-called New Age activities and this are not called religions and therefore don’t come under the prohibition of mingling church and state that we have in this country.
Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
There’s an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn’t disagree more.
I think my children know that Mother’s priority is to be with them first. But I don’t think it has to be an either/or situation. Work is very important to me, and it wouldn’t be in the best interest of my children for me to stay home seven days a week.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.
I really want to live in New York. That’s the city of my dreams.
I saw Ellen and my knees were weak. It was amazing. And it was very hard for me to get her out of my mind after that. Then when I saw her that night, we started talking, and that’s that.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
I mean, sports are big, big, big business.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.
We’re going to do everything possible to make sure that food safety is always paramount, and that we work with the industry as aggressively as we can to make sure that we’re paying attention to the food-safety issues.
The truth is you can have a great marriage, but there are still no guarantees.
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
I don’t get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there’s always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
I don’t expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
I have as much input to the blues I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.
According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.