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Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

We know that 10 million more people will lose insurance in the next 10 years if we don't act.

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.

Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.