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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids.

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

You can disseminate your art, and it's all such easy access now. The upside to it is that more people are creating than ever before.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.