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Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.