As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes

If you ask me what is civilisation, it's little more than an act of faith.

I'm very interested in how people in the 19th century travelled to Greece.

Paying debt service to banks leaves less income to buy goods and services.

To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece.

Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.

This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.

Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they're incoherent.

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.

I'd rather see a kid get fixated on something they can turn into a career.

When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.

Cancer is complex and therefore there is not a one-size-fits-all solution.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.

Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.

One of my philosophies of building companies is the importance of velocity.

It is not always people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.

What can I learn from this? What will I do next time I'm in this situation?

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

A very simple bad decision is to get into debt. And that is very expensive.

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.

The secret of the Internet's success has been its openness to new services.

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

I'm not a military man. I wish I were, then maybe I could give some advice.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.

Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.

President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.

Important benefits often accrue to states that behave in an unexpected way.

It's hard to know what you can do just on your own as a new administration.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

Fate has it in for me to be an exhibit: that funny old lady from the telly.

I knew that Trump was ghastly. I knew I'd vote for Hillary if I had a vote.

I have lots of heroes and heroines, mostly unsung and including my husband.

In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.

Happiness does not simply happen to us. It's something that we make happen.

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.

In every sin, we choose to believe the devil's lie rather than God's truth.

It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.

If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.

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