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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

Women are in a position now to voice their opinion... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understand.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more.

If I could have convinced more slaves that they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

In these troubled, uncertain times, we don't need more command and control; we need better means to engage everyone's intelligence in solving challenges and crises as they arise.