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I will never sit down with Gerry Adams . . . he'd sit with anyone. He'd sit down with the devil. In fact, Adams does sit down with the devil.
Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.
I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use.
No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.
Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies.
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.
By regulating marijuana, we can put black market drug dealers out of business and eliminate the rebellious allure that attracts young people.
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Still and pale Thou movest in thy silver veil, Queen of the night! the filmy shroud Of many a mild, transparent cloud Hides, yet adorns thee.
Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman [John] Lewis at a book festival.
Spirit, like body, needs to be trained. So I think it's necessary to make your spirit stronger. And for he who believes, anything is possible.
Not only must Americans admire Israel, there can be no doubt that we have an interest in, and special responsibility for, that valiant nation.
I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.
It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.
I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.
You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control.
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
I am a coolie and the son of a coolie. I was born with the poor, and I am still poor. My sympathies have always been with the struggling mass.
The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?
All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires.
Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island controls the world.
We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
I'm just a very normal person, living in north London, doing my best for my area and to put forward some serious debate on issues in the party.
When I was governor, if I told a joke in front of the press - I learned. I would go, "That was a joke, joke, joke," and I'd say it three times.
The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.
I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that makes business sense.
Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.
Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.
Yes, I was deprived of sleep, especially during the first few days, ... However, there was nothing physical, no touching or anything like that.
If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.
Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.
Iraq lacks leaders capable of soothing sectarian wounds, and Western attempts to pick them or force their hand invite anti-imperialist backlash.
It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.
I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.
Pubcon is always one of the first shows I put on my calendar. Content is excellent, social is excellent, networking opportunities are excellent.
Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.
Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.
Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.
Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed?
The greatest danger facing our nation isn't terrorism, global warming or the energy crisis. It is out-of-control, unbridled government spending.
In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.
Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.
To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.
Whether man is a product of evolution or is 'created' becomes the question, 'Who is man? Is he part of the world or something different from it?'
We have no rational evidence that there exists another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume.
I am more interested in the purpose of government than its mechanics-though the means should at least be good enough to lead to the ends desired.
I don't think Russia will follow the United States's way. I don't think Russia will follow the French way. I'm sure Russia will find its own way.
The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery
If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.
While we have some of the toughest anti-discrimination laws in the world, we are blind to some of the most flagrant discrimination - against men.