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I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.

It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than any other single factor.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.

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.

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.

Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s. If you're in your 60s and you're with the kid every day, you're dealing with the mind of a child, so it opens up that childishness in you again.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.