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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

I always think, look at how people were before they were pregnant. If you were a toned, healthy, energetic person, most likely you will be like that again.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

I was striving to be the most muscular man, and it got me into the movies. It got me everything that I have.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.

That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

The most powerful political voices are those with a different way of seeing and processing the world and the sounds that emanate from it.