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When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

It's fun to peek into other people's worlds and see how they go about doing things.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

My attitude to peace is rather based on the Burmese definition of peace - it really means removing all the negative factors that destroy peace in this world. So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn't make it up. It's in the Constitution. I think it's just as important as any of the other rights in our constitution.

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

We all have our problems and we are working to find a solution to ours and also to help the eurozone. We expect that other countries should do the same, that they be prudent in their statements.

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries.