1. A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
  2. A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
  3. A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
  4. As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
  5. Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
  6. Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
  7. Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.
  8. Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
  9. Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
  10. Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
  11. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
  12. Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
  13. Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us concentrate our energy.
  14. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
  15. It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
  16. Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
  17. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
  18. Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
  19. Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
  20. Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
  21. Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
  22. Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
  23. Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
  24. Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
  25. That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
  26. The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
  27. The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
  28. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
  29. Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
  30. Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
  31. To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
  32. Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
  33. Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
  34. You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
  35. You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
  36. You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
  37. You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

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  1. A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
  2. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
  3. All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.
  4. All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
  5. Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
  6. Beauty is the promise of happiness.
  7. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
  8. But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
  9. Education is the cheap defense of nations.
  10. Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
  11. He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
  12. I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
  13. I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
  14. If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
  15. It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
  16. It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
  17. Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
  18. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
  19. Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
  20. Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
  21. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
  22. Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
  23. Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
  24. Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
  25. Our patience will achieve more than our force.
  26. Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
  27. People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
  28. Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
  29. Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
  30. Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
  31. Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
  32. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
  33. The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
  34. The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
  35. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
  36. The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
  37. There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
  38. There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
  39. Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
  40. To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
  41. Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
  42. Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
  43. We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
  44. What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
  45. When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
  46. You can never plan the future by the past.

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  1. A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
  2. As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.
  3. As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.
  4. As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.
  5. As with most liberal sexual ideas, what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.
  6. Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.
  7. Big women do themselves a disservice when they attempt to become the Righteous Fat (the Righteous Thin are bad enough, all that running around and sweating, somehow believing it means anything).
  8. Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.
  9. From paying off friends' tax bills to rescuing stray dogs and stuffing £20 notes into the hands of homeless people, I can't get rid of my money fast enough.
  10. I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from women, usually when I failed to respond to their advances.
  11. It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
  12. It's received wisdom that the English are uniquely child-unfriendly.
  13. It's very hard to imagine the phrase 'consumer society' used so cheerfully, and interpreted so enthusiastically, in England.
  14. I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched.
  15. I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?
  16. Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'
  17. Make no mistake, most women are well aware that they've never had it so good when they enter a spa or salon, it is purely a hair/nails thing, a prelude to an evening of guilt-free fun.
  18. Monarchists frequently declare that without the royal family, Britain would be 'nothing.' What a woeful lack of love for one's country such statements express.
  19. Most women are wise to the fact that lots of men love a cat-fight, and thus go out of their way not to give them one.
  20. My dad didn't drive - the only dad I knew who didn't.
  21. My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
  22. No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.
  23. No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.
  24. One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'
  25. Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.
  26. Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.
  27. 'Stress' was the catch-all every pamper-pedlar I spoke to used to explain why healthy women feel the need to be regularly patted, petted and preened into a state of babyish beatification.
  28. Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.
  29. Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
  30. The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.
  31. The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion things to make life easier for men, in fact.
  32. The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.
  33. We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.
  34. What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.
  35. What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?
  36. When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?
  37. When I moved out of London 13 years ago, I found a whole other reason not to drive. This was because my new husband Dan, unlike my dad, did drive, and this became a great source of fun and adventure.
  38. Women, more often than not, do things which aren't remotely relaxing but are all about preening, which is just another sort of work.

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  1. A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
  2. Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
  3. Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.
  4. Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
  5. Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
  6. Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.
  7. Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.
  8. Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
  9. Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.
  10. Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
  11. Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
  12. Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
  13. Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
  14. High school is such a shared experience in North American culture.
  15. Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
  16. I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli?
  17. I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
  18. I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
  19. If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.
  20. If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.
  21. If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.
  22. If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
  23. If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.
  24. If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?
  25. If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
  26. In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.
  27. It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.
  28. It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
  29. Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
  30. Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
  31. Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
  32. People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
  33. People will always choose more money over more sex.
  34. Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.
  35. Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.
  36. Technology favors horrible people.
  37. The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
  38. The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
  39. The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
  40. The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.
  41. The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
  42. There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.
  43. There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.
  44. Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
  45. We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
  46. We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
  47. When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.
  48. Workshops and seminars are basically financial speed dating for clueless people.
  49. You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

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  1. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
  2. A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
  3. A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.
  4. All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
  5. All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
  6. America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
  7. Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
  8. Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
  9. Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
  10. I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
  11. I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
  12. I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
  13. I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
  14. I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
  15. I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
  16. In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
  17. Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.
  18. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
  19. It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
  20. It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work.
  21. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
  22. My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
  23. Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
  24. Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in.
  25. Study men, not historians.
  26. The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
  27. The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
  28. The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's.
  29. The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
  30. The reward of suffering is experience.
  31. The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
  32. There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
  33. Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
  34. Upon books the collective education of the race depends they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
  35. We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
  36. When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.
  37. When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.
  38. You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.
  39. You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
  40. You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

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  1. America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
  2. Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.
  3. America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.
  4. And I think most people in this country want to see a president that's got the courage to say we're going to cut the tax burden, and reduce the regulatory climate, and we're going to get Americans working.
  5. As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.
  6. As Americans, we realize that there is no taxpayer money that wasn't first earned through the sweat and toil of one of our citizens.
  7. But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom.
  8. Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
  9. Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
  10. Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'
  11. I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.
  12. I mean, Dodd-Frank is strangling small community banks. It doesn't make any difference what the interest rate is. They're not - they're not going to loan the money because they can't make any money for one thing plus the cost of compliance.
  13. I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.
  14. In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.
  15. It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.
  16. It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.
  17. My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.
  18. Obamacare has got everyone on edge. I mean, small business - men and women or big business are sitting out there saying we have no idea what this is going to cost, but we know it's going to cost us and cost us a lot.
  19. Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!
  20. Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.
  21. Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.
  22. Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.
  23. President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.
  24. Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.
  25. Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.
  26. Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.
  27. The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
  28. The foundation for future prosperity is built on the bedrock of good jobs and great schools. We are building a strong foundation one job at a time and one educated Texan at a time.
  29. The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
  30. This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.
  31. We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.
  32. We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.
  33. We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.
  34. We've got the wind at our back right now. Americans are waking up to the realities of their previous choices. We must keep America moving back to preeminence because our values and conservative ideas are the world's greatest hope.
  35. What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
  36. When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson.
  37. When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
  38. Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.
  39. You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it.

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  1. I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
  2. I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
  3. I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
  4. I don't care about money.
  5. I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
  6. I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.
  7. I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
  8. I don't want to make money I want to make a difference.
  9. I don't want to make niche-oriented music.
  10. I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
  11. I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.
  12. I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
  13. I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
  14. I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
  15. I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
  16. I just want to keep writing music.
  17. I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
  18. I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
  19. I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
  20. I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.
  21. I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
  22. I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.
  23. I write music every day.
  24. I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
  25. I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
  26. I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
  27. In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
  28. It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.
  29. It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
  30. My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
  31. My mom and I are very close.
  32. Pop music will never be low brow.
  33. So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
  34. Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
  35. Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.
  36. What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
  37. When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
  38. When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.
  39. Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
  40. You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

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  1. A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
  2. A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
  3. Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
  4. Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
  5. Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
  6. Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.
  7. Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'
  8. Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.
  9. Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
  10. Gray hair is God's graffiti.
  11. Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
  12. Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
  13. I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
  14. I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
  15. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
  16. I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
  17. I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.
  18. If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.
  19. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
  20. Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
  21. Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
  22. Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
  23. My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.
  24. No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
  25. Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
  26. Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
  27. People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
  28. Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
  29. Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
  30. Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
  31. The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
  32. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
  33. The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
  34. The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
  35. The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
  36. There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
  37. Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
  38. We're not raising children with the love that we need to.
  39. Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
  40. You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

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  1. A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
  2. Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.
  3. Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'
  4. I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
  5. I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.
  6. I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.
  7. I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.
  8. I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.
  9. I love clothes, but I don't know what to put on myself, let alone others. I have a lot of help getting dressed.
  10. I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
  11. I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.
  12. I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.I really am pretty happy with what God gave me.
  13. I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.
  14. I think a good relationship is about collaboration.
  15. I think there are opportunities for women in comedies - how zany is up to them.
  16. I want to see friends more and travel more.
  17. I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.
  18. I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
  19. I'm not one aspect of the human experience - none of us is.
  20. I'm not sitting dwelling about the past or stressing or fretting about something in the future.
  21. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.
  22. I've gone for each type: the rough guy the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.
  23. I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.
  24. Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.
  25. Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.
  26. Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.
  27. Marriage is wonderful.
  28. My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.
  29. My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.
  30. My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.
  31. Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.
  32. OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.
  33. Parenting is one of the hardest jobs on earth.
  34. People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.
  35. That's what I hate about a lot of comedies, when you're hitting a line or making it funny.
  36. The best smell in the world is that man that you love.
  37. There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.
  38. To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.
  39. What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning?
  40. Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.
  41. You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?
  42. You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.
  43. You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile.

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  1. A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
  2. Absence - that common cure of love.
  3. Adversity is the first path to truth.
  4. All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
  5. America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
  6. As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
  7. Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
  8. But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
  9. Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
  10. For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.
  11. Friendship is Love without his wings!
  12. Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
  13. I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
  14. I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
  15. I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
  16. I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
  17. I love not man the less, but Nature more.
  18. I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
  19. If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
  20. Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
  21. Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
  22. Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
  23. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.
  24. Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
  25. Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
  26. Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
  27. Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
  28. Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
  29. Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
  30. The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
  31. The heart will break, but broken live on.
  32. Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
  33. There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
  34. They never fail who die in a great cause.
  35. This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
  36. This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
  37. Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
  38. 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
  39. Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
  40. We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
  41. What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
  42. Who loves, raves.
  43. Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!

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  1. All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
  2. Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?
  3. Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
  4. Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
  5. Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
  6. Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
  7. Every man must do two things alone he must do his own believing and his own dying.
  8. Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.
  9. Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
  10. Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
  11. Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.
  12. For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
  13. For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
  14. Forgiveness is God's command.
  15. God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
  16. Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
  17. I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
  18. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
  19. I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
  20. I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
  21. I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
  22. If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
  23. Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
  24. Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
  25. My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
  26. Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
  27. Nothing good ever comes of violence.
  28. Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
  29. Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
  30. Peace is more important than all justice and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
  31. Pray, and let God worry.
  32. Reason is the enemy of faith.
  33. The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.
  34. The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
  35. The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
  36. The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
  37. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
  38. To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
  39. War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
  40. Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.

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  1. A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
  2. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
  3. A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
  4. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
  5. As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
  6. Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
  7. Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
  8. Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.
  9. Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
  10. Don't find fault, find a remedy.
  11. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
  12. History is more or less bunk.
  13. I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
  14. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
  15. I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
  16. If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
  17. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
  18. If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
  19. If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
  20. It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
  21. It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
  22. It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
  23. Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
  24. Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
  25. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
  26. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
  27. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
  28. Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.
  29. The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
  30. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
  31. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
  32. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
  33. There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
  34. There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
  35. Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
  36. Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
  37. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
  38. Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
  39. What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
  40. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
  41. You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

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  1. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
  2. Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
  3. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
  4. Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
  5. Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
  6. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
  7. Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
  8. Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
  9. Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
  10. Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
  11. I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
  12. I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
  13. If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
  14. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
  15. It is better to be alone than in bad company.
  16. It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
  17. It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
  18. It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
  19. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
  20. Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.
  21. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
  22. Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
  23. Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
  24. My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
  25. My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
  26. Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
  27. Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
  28. The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
  29. The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
  30. The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
  31. The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
  32. The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
  33. The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
  34. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
  35. To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
  36. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
  37. Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
  38. War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
  39. We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

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  1. Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.
  2. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
  3. Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.
  4. Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
  5. Everybody is entertained to death.
  6. For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
  7. I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.
  8. I don't live in the past at all I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
  9. I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
  10. I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.
  11. I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.
  12. I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
  13. I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.
  14. I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
  15. I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.
  16. I take sounds and change them into words.
  17. I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
  18. I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
  19. I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
  20. I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
  21. I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
  22. If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
  23. If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
  24. I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
  25. I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.
  26. I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
  27. In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.
  28. It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
  29. It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
  30. I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
  31. I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.
  32. I've noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it's far enough in the future.
  33. Law is always better than war.
  34. Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
  35. Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
  36. Most game music is based on loops effectively.
  37. Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
  38. Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.
  39. Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.
  40. Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
  41. One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
  42. One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
  43. One often makes music to supplement one's world.
  44. People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
  45. Perhaps when music has been shouting for so long, a quieter voice seems attractive.
  46. Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it.
  47. Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.
  48. The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.
  49. The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
  50. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.
  51. The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.
  52. The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
  53. There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.
  54. We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
  55. You can't really imagine music without technology.

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  1. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
  2. A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
  3. Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
  4. But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
  5. Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
  6. Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.
  7. Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
  8. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
  9. I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
  10. If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
  11. If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
  12. If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time.
  13. I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
  14. In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
  15. It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
  16. Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
  17. Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
  18. More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
  19. No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
  20. No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
  21. Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
  22. One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
  23. Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.
  24. Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
  25. Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
  26. Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
  27. The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.
  28. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
  29. The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
  30. The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.
  31. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
  32. The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
  33. The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
  34. There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.
  35. True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
  36. War is a contagion.
  37. We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
  38. We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
  39. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.
  40. Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.
  41. Yesterday, December seventh,1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

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