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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

I would never disrespect any man, woman, chick or child out there. We're all the same. What goes around comes around, and karma kicks us all in the butt in the end of the day.

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.