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9,628	28,419	Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.	Elie Wiesel	god
3,906	42,676	I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.	Joan Rivers	life
4,847	52,173	I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.	Gabrielle Union	nature
2,175	6,238	If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.	Pat Riley	best
10,066	15,489	Men are the dreams of a shadow.	Pindar	dreams
198	48,969	Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.	Mickey Rooney	morning
1,477	20,235	Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.	P. J. O'Rourke	family
5,582	4,073	The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.	Stendhal	art
1,315	65,581	No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.	Charles Kendall Adams	success
3,431	41,376	I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.	Natasha Henstridge	learning
334	38,984	Knowledge is true opinion.	Plato	knowledge
869	65,465	I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.	Florence Nightingale	success
8,063	13,368	Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.	Albert Einstein	death
10,232	2,475	Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.	Joe Jonas	amazing
9,598	48,206	When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.	Tecumseh	morning
4,940	39,783	Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.	Nathan Deal	knowledge
6,326	73,677	Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.	Gina Barreca	women
5,635	69,693	Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.	Christopher Heyerdahl	travel
1,329	57,268	Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.	Thomas Love Peacock	power
11,575	60,029	My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.	Jay Weatherill	respect
517	29,835	When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.	Winston Churchill	government
72	60,038	I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.	Justin Townes Earle	respect
2,363	50,662	Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.	Cat Stevens	music
3,424	39,193	Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.	Louis Pasteur	knowledge
3,723	74,030	I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.	Alanis Morissette	women
385	32,663	We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.	Park Geun-hye	happiness
10,054	58,150	I did make some not-so-great relationship decisions when I was a lot younger. I do know that not all high school boys are great and wonderful and Prince Charming, and there are a few that are going to treat you that way.	Jodi Lyn O'Keefe	relationship
11,481	39,911	All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.	James M. Baldwin	knowledge
1,087	31,678	It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.	John Ruskin	great
4,244	61,500	Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.	John F. Kennedy	science
3,312	41,492	Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.	Gates McFadden	learning
3,469	17,181	Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.	Rowan D. Williams	equality
726	57,418	The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.	B. R. Ambedkar	relationship
7,216	9,969	As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.	Claude Chabrol	change
5,711	47,886	Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.	Helen Gurley Brown	money
5,347	22,734	All money is a matter of belief.	Adam Smith	finance
11,148	67,589	With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.	Tom Udall	technology
10,257	12,619	You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.	Andre Agassi	dad
4,910	23,993	I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.	Nadia Giosia	food
3,891	26,931	I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.	Patrick Swayze	future
2,905	68,692	In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.	George Orwell	time
10,792	32,712	We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.	Mary Gordon	happiness
3,065	54,549	I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.	Janine Turner	poetry
2,598	69,515	You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.	Don Shula	travel
5,174	17,608	Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.	Andrew Cohen	experience
1,447	29,261	Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.	Robert Louis Stevenson	good
8,667	15,214	I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.	Alanis Morissette	dreams
2,533	33,229	Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.	Dianne Feinstein	health
4,729	22,286	He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.	Pierre Corneille	fear
11,225	48,705	I don't have an iPod. I mean, I have a couple. Doesn't everyone? But I don't use it. I need to because I go to the gym now, and I'm tired of listening to morning radio. I want some music! I do have a video iPod, but I don't use it either.	Ricky Schroder	morning
2,478	29,274	And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.	Isaac Asimov	good
710	28,301	If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.	Mike Ditka	god
6,726	68,372	Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.	Bill Gates	time
9,035	463	I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.	Janice Dickinson	age
8,303	63,115	There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.	A. Bartlett Giamatti	society
6,590	53,664	We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.	Paul Robeson	peace
10,274	47,692	If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.	Doug Coupland	money
2,200	30,155	Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.	Corazon Aquino	government
2,375	4,411	I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.	Jeff Bridges	art
1,760	22,870	Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.	Hassanal Bolkiah	finance
2,193	53,675	Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.	James Q. Wilson	peace
11,791	3,938	Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.	Karl Marx	art
2,429	57,827	It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.	Jane Campion	relationship
5,038	31,289	Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.	Hillary Clinton	great
2,245	17,920	No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.	Roddy Doyle	experience
10,151	55,706	I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.	Terry McAuliffe	politics
528	50,206	After doing 'Firefly' and moving on, I always wanted to be part of a series again. I love doing films, too, but there's just something special about being part of the team and feeling like you're actually a part of the family, and I always look to re-create that.	Summer Glau	movingon
7,515	48,609	I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.	Justin Cronin	morning
911	30,093	I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.	Mikhail Baryshnikov	government
10,372	67,609	We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.	Al Jarreau	technology
7,127	59,470	Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.	C. S. Lewis	respect
10,749	39,027	Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.	Louis L'Amour	knowledge
7,772	37,995	Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.	Barbara Januszkiewicz	imagination
5,412	59,137	I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.	Peter Jennings	religion
11,602	53,260	You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'	Benjamin Netanyahu	peace
9,339	45,437	Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.	Voltaire	men
7,247	69,656	I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.	Earl Scruggs	travel
4,650	72,946	To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.	Plutarch	wisdom
11,700	40,684	Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.	Laura Bush	learning
3,536	62,585	There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.	Billie Holiday	smile
6,110	23,929	It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.	Tom Sizemore	food
1,007	5,289	I am a thing of beauty.	Frank Sinatra	beauty
8,231	24,699	I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.	Zell Miller	freedom
6,713	5,217	Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.	Charles Baudelaire	beauty
2,272	13,739	Normality is death.	Theodor Adorno	death
5,015	3,075	Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.	John Dryden	anger
9,005	52,831	If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.	John Lennon	peace
11,784	14,970	I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is.	Lindsey Shaw	diet
4,335	57,802	It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.	Patti Stanger	relationship
532	66,978	Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.	Andy Grove	technology
11,158	31,933	If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.	David Brainerd	happiness
180	20,539	The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.	Tom Morello	family
11,128	64,583	Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.	John Ruskin	strength
3,145	42,706	A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.	Denis Waitley	life
3,878	11,059	My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.	David Cassidy	cool
8,675	73,151	Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.	James Buchan	wisdom
11,446	53,736	The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.	Chuck Hagel	peace
8,998	7,979	It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.	Emily Procter	business
6,354	21,399	My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.	Lucy Hale	famous
3,692	55,356	I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.	Rand Paul	politics

9,628

28,419

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Elie Wiesel

god

3,906

42,676

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

Joan Rivers

life

4,847

52,173

I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.

Gabrielle Union

nature

2,175

6,238

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

Pat Riley

best

10,066

15,489

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

Pindar

dreams

198

48,969

Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.

Mickey Rooney

morning

1,477

20,235

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

P. J. O'Rourke

family

5,582

4,073

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Stendhal

art

1,315

65,581

No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

Charles Kendall Adams

success

3,431

41,376

I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.

Natasha Henstridge

learning

334

38,984

Knowledge is true opinion.

Plato

knowledge

869

65,465

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Florence Nightingale

success

8,063

13,368

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

death

10,232

2,475

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

Joe Jonas

amazing

9,598

48,206

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.

Tecumseh

morning

4,940

39,783

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

Nathan Deal

knowledge

6,326

73,677

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

Gina Barreca

women

5,635

69,693

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

Christopher Heyerdahl

travel

1,329

57,268

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

Thomas Love Peacock

power

11,575

60,029

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

Jay Weatherill

respect

517

29,835

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Winston Churchill

government

72

60,038

I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy. I still hold some respect for criminals that are good at their jobs.

Justin Townes Earle

respect

2,363

50,662

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Cat Stevens

music

3,424

39,193

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

Louis Pasteur

knowledge

3,723

74,030

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

Alanis Morissette

women

385

32,663

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

Park Geun-hye

happiness

10,054

58,150

I did make some not-so-great relationship decisions when I was a lot younger. I do know that not all high school boys are great and wonderful and Prince Charming, and there are a few that are going to treat you that way.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

relationship

11,481

39,911

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

James M. Baldwin

knowledge

1,087

31,678

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

John Ruskin

great

4,244

61,500

Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.

John F. Kennedy

science

3,312

41,492

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Gates McFadden

learning

3,469

17,181

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Rowan D. Williams

equality

726

57,418

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

B. R. Ambedkar

relationship

7,216

9,969

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

Claude Chabrol

change

5,711

47,886

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Helen Gurley Brown

money

5,347

22,734

All money is a matter of belief.

Adam Smith

finance

11,148

67,589

With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.

Tom Udall

technology

10,257

12,619

You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

Andre Agassi

dad

4,910

23,993

I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.

Nadia Giosia

food

3,891

26,931

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.

Patrick Swayze

future

2,905

68,692

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

George Orwell

time

10,792

32,712

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

Mary Gordon

happiness

3,065

54,549

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

Janine Turner

poetry

2,598

69,515

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

Don Shula

travel

5,174

17,608

Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.

Andrew Cohen

experience

1,447

29,261

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Robert Louis Stevenson

good

8,667

15,214

I did commit to myself that I would not jump back into being the workaholic that I can be before I gave myself an honest opportunity to create the marriage of my dreams and to create the beginning of the family of my dreams, and that took a hot second.

Alanis Morissette

dreams

2,533

33,229

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

Dianne Feinstein

health

4,729

22,286

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

Pierre Corneille

fear

11,225

48,705

I don't have an iPod. I mean, I have a couple. Doesn't everyone? But I don't use it. I need to because I go to the gym now, and I'm tired of listening to morning radio. I want some music! I do have a video iPod, but I don't use it either.

Ricky Schroder

morning

2,478

29,274

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Isaac Asimov

good

710

28,301

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

Mike Ditka

god

6,726

68,372

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Bill Gates

time

9,035

463

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

Janice Dickinson

age

8,303

63,115

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

society

6,590

53,664

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.

Paul Robeson

peace

10,274

47,692

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

Doug Coupland

money

2,200

30,155

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

Corazon Aquino

government

2,375

4,411

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

Jeff Bridges

art

1,760

22,870

Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.

Hassanal Bolkiah

finance

2,193

53,675

Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.

James Q. Wilson

peace

11,791

3,938

Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

Karl Marx

art

2,429

57,827

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

Jane Campion

relationship

5,038

31,289

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

Hillary Clinton

great

2,245

17,920

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Roddy Doyle

experience

10,151

55,706

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.

Terry McAuliffe

politics

528

50,206

After doing 'Firefly' and moving on, I always wanted to be part of a series again. I love doing films, too, but there's just something special about being part of the team and feeling like you're actually a part of the family, and I always look to re-create that.

Summer Glau

movingon

7,515

48,609

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

Justin Cronin

morning

911

30,093

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

government

10,372

67,609

We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.

Al Jarreau

technology

7,127

59,470

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

C. S. Lewis

respect

10,749

39,027

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Louis L'Amour

knowledge

7,772

37,995

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

Barbara Januszkiewicz

imagination

5,412

59,137

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

Peter Jennings

religion

11,602

53,260

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, 'Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let's just sit down and begin to talk peace.'

Benjamin Netanyahu

peace

9,339

45,437

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Voltaire

men

7,247

69,656

I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

Earl Scruggs

travel

4,650

72,946

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch

wisdom

11,700

40,684

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

Laura Bush

learning

3,536

62,585

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

Billie Holiday

smile

6,110

23,929

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

Tom Sizemore

food

1,007

5,289

I am a thing of beauty.

Frank Sinatra

beauty

8,231

24,699

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

Zell Miller

freedom

6,713

5,217

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Charles Baudelaire

beauty

2,272

13,739

Normality is death.

Theodor Adorno

death

5,015

3,075

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

John Dryden

anger

9,005

52,831

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

John Lennon

peace

11,784

14,970

I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is.

Lindsey Shaw

diet

4,335

57,802

It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.

Patti Stanger

relationship

532

66,978

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

Andy Grove

technology

11,158

31,933

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

David Brainerd

happiness

180

20,539

The real estate agent had to go door-to-door in the apartment building we wanted to rent, asking if it was OK for this interracial family - my mom is white and I was a 1-year-old half-African kid - to live in the apartment building.

Tom Morello

family

11,128

64,583

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

John Ruskin

strength

3,145

42,706

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Denis Waitley

life

3,878

11,059

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

David Cassidy

cool

8,675

73,151

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

James Buchan

wisdom

11,446

53,736

The Israeli people must be free to live in peace and security.

Chuck Hagel

peace

8,998

7,979

It's a reality that in this business there's an expectation of being thin. But having a baby is a reality too, and it's more important for me to make milk than to fit into those tiny pants. So that's just going to have to wait.

Emily Procter

business

6,354

21,399

My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.

Lucy Hale

famous

3,692

55,356

I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

Rand Paul

politics