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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.
Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.
And the mind actually does generate electrical currents - very weak ones and not necessarily ones that can be picked up by anyone else.
Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.
Thought consoles us for all, and heals all. If at times it does you ill, ask it for the remedy for that ill and it will give it to you.
But the UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like extraterrestrial visitors. It actually molds itself in order to fit a given culture.
If I leave Chelsea, I would be unprofessional ,just because I am not playing does not mean that I don't love Chelsea. I am not leaving.
In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.
Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.
There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel of our time.
The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.
Whether or not the President is sleeping well won't be a factor in his re-election. That will depend on what he does while he is awake.
You can't be a band and not play, and playing is so invigorating. It breathes life into you. So does creating something out of nothing.
Love doesn't last." She didn't know how much showed her pale face. Meribah's face softened. "Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind.
Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?
I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.
Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement.
Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.
I'd like to be able to experience things. That's the best thing for my work - to be somebody who does get to travel and observe people.
I think money helps us. It helps us. It's our - it's our exchange system. But it does not buy you happiness. It doesn't buy you health.
Look, how come he showed up now? When you have other fairies in the woods? And does that sound crazy when you say it out loud, or what?
The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?
Whoever is still seeking for miracles so that he may believe is himself a wonder, who does not believe while the world around him does.
Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.
Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.
There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.
That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.
We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.
I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.
Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.
Even kings and emperors, with mountains of property and oceans of wealth - these are not even equal to an ant, who does not forget God.
It is said that a rogue does not look you in the face, neither does an honest man look at you as if he had his reputation to establish.
Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.
Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.
A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.
The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.
How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?
What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.
Happiness does not exclude sadness - if a person responds to life, he's sometimes happy and sometimes sad. What matters is he responds.
What's being pushed is to have Darwinism critiqued, to teach there's a controversy. Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
I am very proud to be the only candidate up here who does not have a Super PAC, who's not raising huge sums of money from Wall Street...
The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.
Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?