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The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.

I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.