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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

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

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

I think having children is the most amazing thing.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

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.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.