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There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.
Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.
Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?
Killing must feel good to God too. He does it all the time. Did God feel good about that? He felt powerful.
Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.
Everywhere there is inequality, everywhere there is division, and I worry about it. I think everybody does.
Your family should be there. Your family should always be there. What does it say about you if they aren't?
Whenever anybody does well spiritually, I usually ignore them. It's the greatest compliment I can pay them.
The criminal does not expect his prey to fight back. May he never choose you, but, if he does, surprise him.
Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.
A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.
A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.
"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."
Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.
Everyone who comes out does a very foolish thing in bringing such a quantity of clothes that he never wants.
To stop your mind does not mean to stop the activities of mind. It means your mind pervades your whole body.
It seems that nearly every American either has a share of federal spending or has a close relative who does.
Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.
God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do.
Things are as bad as you fear they are. People are as bad as you think they are. The Universe does not care.
Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.
Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.
The hype that follows me doesn't bug me. I expect more out of myself than anyone else does, that's for sure.
How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?
Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?
For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.
Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.
One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period.
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
I've read the Book of Revelation a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.
I regret what I did but it was in my personal time and I therefore hope that it does not reflect on the show
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.
I really like Thanksgiving turkey... it does not take only time in Houston that you look at natural breasts.
It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure.
Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.
Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?
What the translator - myself in particular - does is not comparable to what the Homeric performer was doing.
I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.
The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.
All one can do for one's character in times like these, is to prove that one does not belong to these times.
An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.