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I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

I love creepy old dudes. I love that they have so much self-confidence, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

I don't make deals for the money. I've got enough, much more than I'll ever need. I do it to do it.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

If we don't make tough decisions today our children are going to have to make much, much tougher decisions tomorrow.

I try not to plan that too much.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

I just have so much love for my record label.