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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.

Killing more people won't help matters.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

As an actor, you're always at the service of somebody else's vision. In a play, it's more of the director's vision, and he or she's got their hands on you all the way up to opening night, and if it's a film, there are even more people.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

I enjoy acting more and more than when I was 17.

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

My version, of course, is not this flag-waving, let's all get on the Jesus train and ride out of hell. I'm not that kind of guy. It's an embrace that life is good, worth living and yeah, it's not easy, but there are more pluses than minuses.

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power.

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.