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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship.

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.