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Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.
"You wanna deliver papers in a big city?" an expert with a bent nose told me, "then you gotta shake the trees to find the gorillas to do it..."
We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.
I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces!
I have issues with liberals, which includes many gay people. I have found some liberal gays to be extremely intolerant of other points of view.
While having a profound impact on the development of values is surely an important job of a good parent, force-feeding opinions to them is not.
[Donald trump] is moved from the enemy being Barack Obama, now gone, fading is Hillary Clinton, and there is no question he's chosen the enemy.
Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.
I really think the single most important thing to remember about trying to fix the schools is that there is no such thing as an instant result.
Contrary to popular belief, we (millennials) can't be won back with hipper worship bands, fancy coffee shops, or pastors who wear skinny jeans.
Cancer is messy and scary. You throw everything at it, but don't forget to throw love at it. It turns out that might be the best weapon of all.
Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses... and then lift your leg on them.
Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.
Allah manages everything in the heavens and earth—the sun, the moon, the stars—with perfection, and yet we don’t trust Him to manage our lives!
I'll tell you the only way to survive: Ask God to place a semi-permeable shield around your heart: One that only allows what He loves to enter.
Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.
I don't have a college degree. I started working at 19 on a tiny newspaper. I've covered everything from weddings to crime to criminal weddings.
So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.
The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells
O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.
He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a week-old head of lettuce.
The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.
Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
When the party holds the White House, all the political decisions are made in the White House. And being a party chair, you're just an artifact.
If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.
I don't hear any clear, coherent message [from Democrats]. I mean, when you're a party out of power, it's the time to be a national party chair.
I am a person of great faith and idealism and have been in too many situations too many times to become an eternal pessimist regarding politics.
The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does.
Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim, and hearts gotta bleed.
Liberal dominance of important areas of America's social and political life has undermined many of the virtues that have sustained this country.
Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.
Strong role models and unconditional love can heal even the most emotionally impoverished person, and that goes for adults as well as youngsters.
I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
Islam is a religion in which God requires you to send your son to die for him. Christianity is a faith in which God sends His son to die for you.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.
What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.
Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.
The failure to invest in our public transportation and public life, I think, is a scandal and a shame, and it should be a national embarrassment.
God isn't present in the past or future. The great 'I Am' is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today.
When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'
Do you struggle with confusion? Not knowing which way to go? Here's why: We turn to means (help of creation, our own mind) before turning to God.
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
I know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter, and from time to time they are - it depends on who they are polling.
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life - full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living.