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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.

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.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

I wouldn't ask any of my employees to do anything I wouldn't do. And I work as hard, if not harder than the rest of the staff, to set an example. I also believe in giving my employees a lot of room to be creative and to express themselves.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.