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Benjamin Franklin
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Juliana Hatfield
If you want to achieve things in life, you’ve just got to do them, and if you’re talented and smart, you’ll succeed.
Fred Upton
Our work on light bulbs wasn’t an arbitrary mandate. We didn’t just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.
Charlotte Bronte
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Abu Bakr
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Albert Camus
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
Herb Caen
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Don Johnson
The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.
Harriet Martineau
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
James H. Douglas
Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.
Jennifer Weiner
The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence – the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day – the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you’ve got something worth saying.
Little Richard
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I’ve always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.
Sue Townsend
I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.
Beau Bridges
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
Carol Moseley Braun
I’m committed to universal health coverage and education.
Erskine Bowles
You always have certain strengths and certain weaknesses, and you want to compensate for your weaknesses… I have a real duty to earn the trust of the faculty. I don’t just deserve it. I have to earn it.
Barry Goldwater
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
William Ward
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
James Weldon Johnson
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
Vanessa Mae
For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn’t have time for university.
Kevin James
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
Jim Bishop
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
May Sarton
No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
Eden Phillpotts
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Jason Alexander
The thing about For Better or Worse is the only thing that made me an okay director for that is that I have a sense of humor, and it was supposed to be funny.
Bill Nighy
It can’t be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it’s like Christmas.
Regina Spektor
I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I’ve seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don’t know any more if this is the awesomest way to live.
Publilius Syrus
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Laozi
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.