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For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

There's one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and - I'm going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself - I think most respect me.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.

Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making "Star Trek." But most of the time, I don't think about it.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.

You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.