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8,281	11,710	Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.	Charles Caleb Colton	courage
9,552	55,772	First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot.	George Crook	politics
6,547	46,896	I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.	Derek Luke	mom
4,289	49,908	I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.	Stephenie Meyer	movies
5,359	46,953	It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.	Haley Reinhart	mom
11,448	63,013	Women are the real architects of society.	Cher	society
9,007	26,111	Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.	Guy Pearce	funny
5,696	51,633	Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.	Karl Von Clausewitz	nature
7,161	45,361	Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.	Katharine Hepburn	men
2,261	42,256	If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.	Oscar Wilde	life
7,692	33,771	In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.	Karen Duffy	health
8,938	66,901	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.	Arthur C. Clarke	technology
5,570	1,323	Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.	James A. Garfield	alone
6,333	54,833	You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.	Harry S. Truman	politics
6,651	71,115	One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.	John Locke	truth
11,307	20,617	The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.	Tony Campolo	family
9,910	8,529	It's like, it's kind of like if you ever had a car and it was a bit of a clunker but you love it, that's my show. It's a bit of a clunker but I know where everything is and I like it.	Craig Ferguson	car
9,114	39,077	True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.	Socrates	knowledge
11,667	41,963	A well-spent day brings happy sleep.	Leonardo da Vinci	life
400	39,460	I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.	Jimmy Wales	knowledge
872	55,060	In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.	Alexis de Tocqueville	politics
5,751	24,896	I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.	Alan Dershowitz	freedom
9,871	7,294	In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.	Benjamin Franklin	business
8,084	30,052	When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.	Harry S. Truman	government
178	49,948	I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.	Jet Li	movies
2,085	4,954	There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.	Todd Phillips	attitude
10,300	3,441	Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.	Samuel Butler	architecture
10,088	44,959	I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.	Paul Farmer	medical
10,315	32,141	Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.	Anton Chekhov	happiness
199	28,205	Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.	Madonna Ciccone	god
4,134	54,124	If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.	Muhammad Iqbal	poetry
5,769	60,096	I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.	Alan Ladd	respect
904	70,866	When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.	William Blake	truth
7,569	38,440	Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.	Julian Assange	intelligence
9,018	26,975	I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.	Katy Perry	future
4,469	62,591	It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.	Ellen Barkin	smile
11,185	56,858	It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.	Robert Plant	power
9,342	21,245	I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.	Charlie Kaufman	famous
5,944	41,076	I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.	Tim McGraw	learning
9,562	18,850	If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.	Ruben Hinojosa	failure
4,166	49,816	I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.	Guy Pearce	movies
7,226	67,778	Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.	Nam June Paik	technology
3,451	9,898	I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.	Sherri Shepherd	change
425	51,815	Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.	Dave Barry	nature
4,614	50,686	I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.	Brian Eno	music
7,856	68,284	Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.	John F. Kennedy	time
9,064	47,668	I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.	Hedy Lamarr	money
162	57,875	I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.	Steve Harvey	relationship
4,332	1,189	Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.	Samuel Johnson	alone
7,238	14,687	The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.	Byron White	design
3,026	21,105	For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.	Jeff Bridges	famous
10,420	61,749	True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.	Miguel de Unamuno	science
5,527	71,961	This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.	Lyndon B. Johnson	war
3,266	50,734	People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.	Billy Corgan	music
5,126	71,218	Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.	Jean-Luc Godard	truth
10,101	71,329	It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.	Sharon Stone	truth
7,701	62,457	Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.	W. C. Fields	smile
2,945	66,637	My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.	Yo-Yo Ma	teacher
8,124	14,144	Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.	Stanislav Grof	death
4,782	66,045	I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.	Kirk Hammett	success
9,539	17,278	Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.	Mark Pryor	equality
7,652	41,825	We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.	Joshua Micah Marshall	legal
1,791	54,085	Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.	Percy Bysshe Shelley	poetry
3,027	36,547	I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.	A. N. Wilson	hope
7,625	38,225	This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.	Roma Downey	inspirational
4,258	60,538	My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.	Salma Hayek	romantic
11,297	24,979	I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.	Michael Haneke	freedom
1,457	56,435	The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.	Edmund Burke	power
2,824	44,272	Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.	Tony Campolo	marriage
1,222	33,543	Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.	Ralph Merkle	health
3,073	20,751	If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.	Rachael Ray	family
2,933	52,539	I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.	Jenny Agutter	patience
7,384	10,692	The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.	Daniel Radcliffe	cool
1,692	61,525	Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.	Carl Sagan	science
5,873	13,073	My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.	Alison Lohman	dad
1,403	47,251	Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.	Mother Teresa	money
676	8,247	If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.	Jeff Bezos	business
6,799	20,841	The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.	Iain Duncan Smith	family
6,626	45,815	Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.	E. W. Howe	men
11,359	19,134	Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith.	Ronald Reagan	faith
10,988	16,380	Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.	Vince Cable	education
5,202	65,853	Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.	Ricky Williams	success
5,153	40,929	I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.	Joaquin Phoenix	learning
1,309	73,834	There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.	Jackie Kennedy	women
8,489	46,523	I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.	Alicia Keys	mom
8,503	33,619	As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.	Bill Richardson	health
7,043	34,895	I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.	Zig Ziglar	home
5,453	31,731	The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.	P. J. O'Rourke	great
2,473	15,713	I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.	Mike Farrell	dreams
11,277	35,162	Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.	Satchel Paige	home
1,495	39,046	The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.	Miguel de Cervantes	knowledge
6,630	63,267	We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.	David Ogden Stiers	society
5,423	47,523	A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.	Thomas Fuller	money
1,802	48,454	I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.	Murray Walker	morning
1,298	33,697	We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?	Gordon Smith	health
4,460	72,708	A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.	Nelson Mandela	wisdom
4,034	50,521	I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.	Tom Stoppard	music
5,319	33,406	We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.	Paul Hawken	health
9,335	10,108	It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.	Marya Mannes	communication
9,691	33,469	This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.	Gro Harlem Brundtland	health

8,281

11,710

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

courage

9,552

55,772

First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot.

George Crook

politics

6,547

46,896

I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.

Derek Luke

mom

4,289

49,908

I've seen little pieces of 'Interview with a Vampire' when it was on TV, but I kind of always go yuck! I don't watch R-rated movies, so that really cuts down on a lot of the horror.

Stephenie Meyer

movies

5,359

46,953

It's always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.

Haley Reinhart

mom

11,448

63,013

Women are the real architects of society.

Cher

society

9,007

26,111

Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.

Guy Pearce

funny

5,696

51,633

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Karl Von Clausewitz

nature

7,161

45,361

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

men

2,261

42,256

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Oscar Wilde

life

7,692

33,771

In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.

Karen Duffy

health

8,938

66,901

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

technology

5,570

1,323

Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.

James A. Garfield

alone

6,333

54,833

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Harry S. Truman

politics

6,651

71,115

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

John Locke

truth

11,307

20,617

The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.

Tony Campolo

family

9,910

8,529

It's like, it's kind of like if you ever had a car and it was a bit of a clunker but you love it, that's my show. It's a bit of a clunker but I know where everything is and I like it.

Craig Ferguson

car

9,114

39,077

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

Socrates

knowledge

11,667

41,963

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Leonardo da Vinci

life

400

39,460

I have always liked the idea of going to print because a big part of what we are about is to disseminate knowledge throughout the world and not just to people who have broadband.

Jimmy Wales

knowledge

872

55,060

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Alexis de Tocqueville

politics

5,751

24,896

I don't believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom.

Alan Dershowitz

freedom

9,871

7,294

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

business

8,084

30,052

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Harry S. Truman

government

178

49,948

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

Jet Li

movies

2,085

4,954

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover,' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

Todd Phillips

attitude

10,300

3,441

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

architecture

10,088

44,959

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

Paul Farmer

medical

10,315

32,141

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Anton Chekhov

happiness

199

28,205

Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

Madonna Ciccone

god

4,134

54,124

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Muhammad Iqbal

poetry

5,769

60,096

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.

Alan Ladd

respect

904

70,866

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

William Blake

truth

7,569

38,440

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

Julian Assange

intelligence

9,018

26,975

I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.

Katy Perry

future

4,469

62,591

It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.

Ellen Barkin

smile

11,185

56,858

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

Robert Plant

power

9,342

21,245

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

Charlie Kaufman

famous

5,944

41,076

I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.

Tim McGraw

learning

9,562

18,850

If we do not get No Child Left Behind right for Limited English Proficient students, the law will be a failure for most schools in the 15th Congressional District, and for many across the nation.

Ruben Hinojosa

failure

4,166

49,816

I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me.

Guy Pearce

movies

7,226

67,778

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

Nam June Paik

technology

3,451

9,898

I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.

Sherri Shepherd

change

425

51,815

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

Dave Barry

nature

4,614

50,686

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Brian Eno

music

7,856

68,284

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

John F. Kennedy

time

9,064

47,668

I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.

Hedy Lamarr

money

162

57,875

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Steve Harvey

relationship

4,332

1,189

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Samuel Johnson

alone

7,238

14,687

The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Byron White

design

3,026

21,105

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

Jeff Bridges

famous

10,420

61,749

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Miguel de Unamuno

science

5,527

71,961

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

Lyndon B. Johnson

war

3,266

50,734

People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.

Billy Corgan

music

5,126

71,218

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Jean-Luc Godard

truth

10,101

71,329

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Sharon Stone

truth

7,701

62,457

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

W. C. Fields

smile

2,945

66,637

My teacher, my great cello teacher Leonard Rose, was such a great cellist, and nurturing man, very patient. But I grew up not only admiring him, but obviously Casals, Rostrotovich, Jacqueline du Pre, and many others, including many of my peers and contemporaries.

Yo-Yo Ma

teacher

8,124

14,144

Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.

Stanislav Grof

death

4,782

66,045

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

Kirk Hammett

success

9,539

17,278

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.

Mark Pryor

equality

7,652

41,825

We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.

Joshua Micah Marshall

legal

1,791

54,085

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

poetry

3,027

36,547

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

A. N. Wilson

hope

7,625

38,225

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

Roma Downey

inspirational

4,258

60,538

My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.

Salma Hayek

romantic

11,297

24,979

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

Michael Haneke

freedom

1,457

56,435

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

power

2,824

44,272

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

Tony Campolo

marriage

1,222

33,543

Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

Ralph Merkle

health

3,073

20,751

If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.

Rachael Ray

family

2,933

52,539

I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer.

Jenny Agutter

patience

7,384

10,692

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

Daniel Radcliffe

cool

1,692

61,525

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan

science

5,873

13,073

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

Alison Lohman

dad

1,403

47,251

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

Mother Teresa

money

676

8,247

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Jeff Bezos

business

6,799

20,841

The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.

Iain Duncan Smith

family

6,626

45,815

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

E. W. Howe

men

11,359

19,134

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race we kept them free we kept the faith.

Ronald Reagan

faith

10,988

16,380

Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.

Vince Cable

education

5,202

65,853

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

Ricky Williams

success

5,153

40,929

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.

Joaquin Phoenix

learning

1,309

73,834

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

Jackie Kennedy

women

8,489

46,523

I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.

Alicia Keys

mom

8,503

33,619

As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy.

Bill Richardson

health

7,043

34,895

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

Zig Ziglar

home

5,453

31,731

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

P. J. O'Rourke

great

2,473

15,713

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

Mike Farrell

dreams

11,277

35,162

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

Satchel Paige

home

1,495

39,046

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Miguel de Cervantes

knowledge

6,630

63,267

We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information.

David Ogden Stiers

society

5,423

47,523

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into.

Thomas Fuller

money

1,802

48,454

I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.

Murray Walker

morning

1,298

33,697

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

Gordon Smith

health

4,460

72,708

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Nelson Mandela

wisdom

4,034

50,521

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Tom Stoppard

music

5,319

33,406

We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.

Paul Hawken

health

9,335

10,108

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Marya Mannes

communication

9,691

33,469

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

health