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Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

The real question for me is, do people have the tools that they need in order to make those decisions well? And I think that it's actually really important that Facebook continually makes it easier and easier to make those decisions... If people feel like they don't have control over how they're sharing things, then we're failing them.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

The same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.

If you're saving for the long run, it's actually a good thing when the market is down because the more shares you have, the more you can potentially make when markets rise. And over time - decades, not months - the markets rise more than they fall.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.