'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell
A child, like your stomach, doesn't need all you can afford to give it.
Frank A. Clark
A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it.
Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers.
Black Elk
Most smiles are started by another smile.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Jean de la Bruyere
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
Henry David Thoreau
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Glenn Clark
It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.
James Levine
The time has come to harness the blessed power within us and to use it to transcend from our current existence into a more empowered reality.
Steve Maraboli
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Joe Clark
I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.
Anna Kendrick
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Karen Kaiser Clark
My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.
Susie Bright
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
Kenneth Clark
You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.
Glen Hansard
People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
You can't put a price tag on love, but you can on all its accessories.
Melanie Clark
I believe in the equality of man and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas Paine
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark
A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you.
But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so, too, did the happiness of the people grow. They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud.
Kurt Vonnegut
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
Maggie Kuhn
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.
George Eliot
You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.
Mark Pincus
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
Tony Snow
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.
Richard Clark
The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.
Thomas Carlyle
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
Jackson Browne
You got to sing like you don't need the money; Love like you'll never get hurt; You got to dance like nobody's watchin'; It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work.
Susanna Clark
No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.
Katharine Graham
You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.
J. Richard Clarke
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
Voltaire
Quite often a man goes on for years imagining that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.
Leo Tolstoy
One who cares is one who listens.
Energetic action on debt would make a radical difference to the prospects of many of the poorest countries in the world, at no practical cost to creditor countries.
Kenneth Clarke
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