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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.

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.

It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.