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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

As I began to discover my own truth and endeavored to possess it with clarity, I became more and more alienated from that which my companions held, or professed to hold.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

I'd like to improve on running plays. I want to see if I can hurt some more people. To me, I don't think I'm out there hurting enough people.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

There aren't many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory - it'd be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it's strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.