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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant'.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

You can be with one of the most beautiful women in the world and still be unhappy.

Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

I was the most powerful left-handed hitter in the Alameda area.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.