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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to really control the process, because there are more and more experts that come in.

It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.

I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way.

There are more people at Obama's table offering ideas than there were five years ago, but when it came to facing up to the Republicans' threat to force a double-dip recession if they didn't get their millionaires' tax cut, they still amounted to nothing. And therein lies our fundamental problem.

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

We want our government to protect us, to make sure something like 9/11 never happens again. We quickly moved to give law enforcement more power to do this. But that now begs the question, did we move to fast? Did we give too much power away? I don't have the answer.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.