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The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

In recent years, more and more of my time has become absorbed by administrative work for the research council of ETH-Z of which I am presently the president.

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

I want to get into the educational DNA of American culture. I want 10 percent of the common culture, more or less, to be black.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

You talk about the values that you have whether they're in favor or not in favor. That's how you lead. The reality is, we're losing more and more elections.

So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.