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The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

Some of the most powerful times are when we're quiet.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

I always think, look at how people were before they were pregnant. If you were a toned, healthy, energetic person, most likely you will be like that again.