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I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

The only peace is being out of earshot.