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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.

I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.