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The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

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

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

I produce the records. I don't hand over control to some really expensive producer who then talks to the record company and then tries to bend me to their will - for commercial purposes.

And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.