Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.
General George Patton
The most vital quality a soldier can possess is self-confidence.
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
Maya Angelou
Always do more than is required of you.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Miguel de Cervantes
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
Lionel Blue
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
Thomas Hobbes
If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.
Arthur Ashe
Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
Henry Drummond
I was very pleased that the positive things about me and my game outshone the aggressive style of play I use. I would never tone that down, because I believe in that style of play, and I believe that you can play rough on the court and still be a good sport.
Sue Wicks
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
Sophocles
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
William Osler
If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.
Rand Paul
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
I've done an informal, anecdotal survey about marriage, and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.
Mary McCormack
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
Angela Merkel
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
Suzanne Fields
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.
Nicholas Negroponte
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.
I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
Danica McKellar
When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird
Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett
Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought.
Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
A short absence is the safest.
Ovid
To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.
Aristotle Onassis
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Time is generally the best doctor.
I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.
Patrick Stewart
In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent.
My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.
Mike Huckabee
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