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So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

By failing seriously to confront the most predicable economic crisis in our nation's history, the President's policies are committing us and our children to a diminished future.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

I have only really gotten by with playing versions of myself as most young actors do.

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl.