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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.