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Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

If the militarily most powerful - and least threatened - states need nuclear weapons for their security, how can one deny such security to countries that are truly insecure? The present nuclear policy is a recipe for proliferation. It is a policy for disaster.

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

Most great records really start with the drums.