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All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Hear the birds? Sometimes I like to pretend that I'm deaf and I try to imagine what it's like not to be able to hear them. It's not that bad.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Use a make-up table with everything close at hand and don't rush; otherwise you'll look like a patchwork quilt.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Being asked what animal you'd like to be is a trick question; you're already an animal.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

I hate working out - I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, 'I can't do it!'

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

I don't get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.