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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

There's a boom in genealogy now. With ancestry.com and other sites digitizing so many of the records, you can now find things in a few minutes that used to take months.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way that maybe the other kids weren't. I was a little more outgoing.

I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding.

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.

One eye sees, the other feels.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

We believe, as the President has indicated, that this combination of a rogue state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and has known ties to terrorist organizations, is a grave threat to the people of the United States and to other countries around the world.

When you're older you want to learn from other people.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

I do feel like a loner but I think it's because I look at things differently than other people.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

And I think if you look at any relationship, for the relationship to be productive and to move forward and to grow, sometimes things have to be said that one person or the other person is not going to like to hear.

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.