1. After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.
  2. And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.
  3. But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?
  4. But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
  5. Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.
  6. Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
  7. From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.
  8. Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.
  9. I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored.
  10. I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.
  11. I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.
  12. I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
  13. If a guy is intimidated by a woman in leadership, he has real problems with his own concepts of masculinity. That's a harsh statement, but I believe it to be true.
  14. If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?
  15. It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.
  16. It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp.
  17. Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.
  18. Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'
  19. Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
  20. Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.
  21. Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.
  22. So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.
  23. Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

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  1. A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'
  2. A lot of truth is said in jest.
  3. Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.
  4. Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.
  5. Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
  6. Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.
  7. I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.
  8. I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.
  9. I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.
  10. I love the attention but I don't like too much of it.
  11. I need drama in my life to keep making music.
  12. I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.
  13. I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
  14. I try to treat all the money I'm making like it's the last time I'm going to make it.
  15. I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
  16. If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
  17. If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
  18. It feels good to have your work respected again.
  19. I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.
  20. Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
  21. My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
  22. People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.
  23. Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.
  24. Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
  25. The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.
  26. The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.
  27. The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
  28. Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
  29. Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.
  30. Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

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  1. A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
  2. A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
  3. A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
  4. All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
  5. Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
  6. Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
  7. Art is born of humiliation.
  8. Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
  9. Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
  10. Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
  11. Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
  12. Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.
  13. 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'
  14. Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
  15. History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
  16. I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.
  17. It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
  18. It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
  19. Learn from your dreams what you lack.
  20. Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
  21. May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
  22. Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
  23. Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
  24. Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
  25. No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
  26. Now is the age of anxiety.
  27. Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
  28. The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
  29. The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
  30. What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
  31. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

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  1. Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
  2. Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
  3. As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
  4. By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.
  5. Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
  6. Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
  7. I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
  8. I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.
  9. I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
  10. I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
  11. I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
  12. I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
  13. I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
  14. If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
  15. In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
  16. In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
  17. It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
  18. I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
  19. Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.
  20. No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
  21. Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
  22. People react to fear, not love they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
  23. Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
  24. Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
  25. Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
  26. The Cold War isn't thawing it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.
  27. The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
  28. Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
  29. We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
  30. We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.
  31. What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
  32. You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
  33. You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

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  1. A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
  2. A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
  3. An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
  4. Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
  5. But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
  6. Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
  7. Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
  8. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
  9. History takes time. History makes memory.
  10. I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
  11. I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
  12. I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
  13. In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
  14. It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
  15. It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
  16. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
  17. It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
  18. It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
  19. It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
  20. It is very easy to love alone.
  21. Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
  22. Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
  23. Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
  24. Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
  25. Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
  26. Romance is everything.
  27. That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
  28. The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
  29. The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
  30. The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
  31. There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
  32. There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
  33. This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
  34. Very likely education does not make very much difference.
  35. War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
  36. We are always the same age inside.
  37. What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
  38. What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
  39. When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

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  1. Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
  2. And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.
  3. But time growing old teaches all things.
  4. By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
  5. By Time and Age full many things are taught.
  6. Call no man happy till he is dead.
  7. Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
  8. Death is softer by far than tyranny.
  9. Excessive fear is always powerless.
  10. For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
  11. For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
  12. For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
  13. For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
  14. God always strives together with those who strive.
  15. God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
  16. God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
  17. God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.
  18. Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
  19. He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
  20. I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
  21. I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.
  22. In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
  23. It is always in season for old men to learn.
  24. It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.
  25. It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
  26. It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
  27. Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
  28. Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
  29. Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
  30. My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
  31. Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
  32. Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
  33. Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
  34. The words of truth are simple.
  35. There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.
  36. There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
  37. Time brings all things to pass.
  38. To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.
  39. What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
  40. When a match has equal partners then I fear not.
  41. When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
  42. Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.
  43. Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
  44. Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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  1. A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
  2. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
  3. Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
  4. Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
  5. Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
  6. Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
  7. God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
  8. Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
  9. Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
  10. I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
  11. I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
  12. If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
  13. Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
  14. Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
  15. Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
  16. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
  17. Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
  18. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
  19. Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
  20. Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
  21. Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
  22. So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
  23. The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
  24. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
  25. The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
  26. Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
  27. To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
  28. To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
  29. Upper classes are a nation's past the middle class is its future.
  30. When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.
  31. When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

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  1. A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
  2. All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
  3. All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
  4. At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
  5. Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
  6. Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
  7. Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
  8. Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
  9. I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
  10. I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
  11. I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.
  12. I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
  13. I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.
  14. I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
  15. I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
  16. I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
  17. I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.
  18. I think I have a dualistic nature.
  19. I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
  20. I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
  21. I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.
  22. I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.
  23. It's not easy to define poetry.
  24. Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
  25. Money doesn't talk, it swears.
  26. My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.
  27. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
  28. The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.
  29. There is nothing so stable as change.
  30. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
  31. Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
  32. What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
  33. What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
  34. You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
  35. You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

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  1. A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
  2. A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
  3. After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
  4. And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
  5. And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
  6. And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
  7. Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.
  8. Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
  9. Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
  10. He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
  11. Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
  12. Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
  13. I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
  14. I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
  15. I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
  16. I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
  17. I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
  18. I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
  19. I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
  20. I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
  21. I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
  22. Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
  23. Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
  24. Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
  25. Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
  26. Produce great men, the rest follows.
  27. The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
  28. The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
  29. The future is no more uncertain than the present.
  30. The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
  31. The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
  32. The real war will never get in the books.
  33. There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
  34. To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
  35. Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
  36. We convince by our presence.
  37. Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

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  1. A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
  2. A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
  3. At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
  4. Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.
  5. I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
  6. I mean, the fight for a health care bill to cover all Americans and leave none behind is attacked as being a race appeal, which is not true, but then it's put out in the media as true.
  7. I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.
  8. In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
  9. In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
  10. It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.
  11. Keep hope alive!
  12. Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.
  13. Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
  14. Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
  15. Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive.
  16. No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
  17. Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
  18. People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.
  19. So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
  20. Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.
  21. The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.
  22. Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
  23. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
  24. Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
  25. We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
  26. We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
  27. We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
  28. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

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  1. As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.
  2. Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
  3. But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work.
  4. Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
  5. Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.
  6. Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.
  7. Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
  8. I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
  9. I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
  10. I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
  11. I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.
  12. I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.
  13. I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.
  14. I have not the smarts or patience for political office.
  15. I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.
  16. I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.
  17. I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.
  18. I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.
  19. I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
  20. I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.
  21. I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
  22. It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
  23. I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
  24. Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
  25. Most Americans are very cool people.
  26. Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
  27. So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.
  28. So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
  29. Some music really does suck!
  30. Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
  31. The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.
  32. The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
  33. The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
  34. The world's a better place since I chose music.
  35. War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
  36. When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.
  37. Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
  38. Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.
  39. You don't have to twist my arm to work.
  40. You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

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  1. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
  2. Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
  3. Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
  4. Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
  5. Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
  6. Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
  7. For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
  8. How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
  9. I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
  10. I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.
  11. I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.
  12. I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
  13. If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
  14. If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
  15. If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
  16. In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
  17. It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
  18. It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
  19. It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
  20. Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.
  21. Marriage is like a cage one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
  22. Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
  23. My trade and art is to live.
  24. No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.
  25. Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
  26. The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
  27. The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
  28. The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
  29. The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
  30. The thing I fear most is fear.
  31. The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
  32. There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
  33. There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
  34. There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
  35. There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.
  36. There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
  37. There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
  38. Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
  39. Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
  40. We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

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  1. A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
  2. A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.
  3. All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.
  4. Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'
  5. Everything in life is luck.
  6. I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'
  7. I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.
  8. I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.
  9. I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.
  10. I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.
  11. I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
  12. I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.
  13. If you look - look at - I mean, look at what's going on with your gasoline prices. They're going to go to $5, $6, $7 and we don't have anybody in Washington that calls OPEC and says, 'Fellas, it's time. It's over. You're not going to do it anymore.'If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.
  14. It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.
  15. It's always good to be underestimated.
  16. It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.
  17. Love him or hate him, Trump is a man who is certain about what he wants and sets out to get it, no holds barred. Women find his power almost as much of a turn-on as his money.
  18. Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
  19. Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.
  20. Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.
  21. One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
  22. People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.
  23. Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
  24. Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
  25. That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.
  26. We need a great president.
  27. Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.
  28. You have to think anyway, so why not think big?
  29. You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

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  1. A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
  2. A wise woman knows how to summon her courage and do what is right, rather than what is easy.
  3. A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.
  4. Here's my gift-giving rule: Respect your current financial situation.
  5. I always say, 'People first, then money, then things.'
  6. I get so frustrated when people tell me it's unrealistic to create an eight-month emergency savings fund, or have money saved for a home down payment, or pay off their $5,000 credit card balance.
  7. If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.
  8. If you're not staying on top of your money, you are putting your financial well-being at risk.
  9. In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.
  10. In order to create lasting security you must learn to stand in your truth.
  11. It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.
  12. Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.
  13. Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.
  14. Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
  15. Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.
  16. No one's ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that's abandoned by February.
  17. Opposites may attract, but I wouldn't put my money on a relationship of financial opposites.
  18. Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.
  19. People first, then money, then things.
  20. Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'
  21. So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
  22. Take free money. No matter how in debt you are, if your employer offers a matching contribution on a 401(k) or other retirement vehicle, you must sign up and contribute enough to get the maximum company match each year. Think of it as a bonus.
  23. The chances of a bank going out of business are extremely slim, but it's always a good idea to spread around major sums so every penny is backed by insurance.
  24. The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.
  25. The key to making money is to stay invested.
  26. The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.
  27. The less money you owe, the less income you'll need and the less you'll have to save for tomorrow.
  28. The most important loan to pay is your student loan. It's more important than your mortgage, car and credit card payments. You cannot discharge student loan debt in the majority of cases.
  29. They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.
  30. Those carrying a credit card balance should scale back to making the minimum payment each month so they have more money to put into savings.
  31. To make the most of your money, I recommend sticking with mutual funds that don't charge a commission when you buy or sell.
  32. We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.
  33. We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.
  34. When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.
  35. Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?
  36. You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.
  37. Your goal should be to pay off your credit card bills in full at the end of each month and set aside money toward your emergency savings.

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  1. A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
  2. A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
  3. A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
  4. An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
  5. An idea is salvation by imagination.
  6. Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
  7. Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
  8. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
  9. Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
  10. Freedom is from within.
  11. Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
  12. God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
  13. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
  14. If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
  15. Less is only more where more is no good.
  16. Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
  17. Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
  18. Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
  19. Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
  20. New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
  21. Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
  22. Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
  23. Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
  24. Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
  25. Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
  26. Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
  27. Space is the breath of art.
  28. Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
  29. The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
  30. The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
  31. The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
  32. The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
  33. The truth is more important than the facts.
  34. TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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