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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.

Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.

Love can do much, but duty more.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty.

Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.

Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.

But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.