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What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Men should pledge themselves to nothing; for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list.

It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide them.

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.