With all great deceivers there is a noteworthy occurrence to which they owe their power. In the actual act of deception... they are overcome by belief in themselves. It is this which then speaks so miraculously and compellingly to those who surround them.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Thomas Jefferson

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

George Saunders

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

Tryon Edwards

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

Phillips Brooks

Perhaps the magic would last, perhaps it wouldn't. But then again, what does?

Terry Pratchett

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

Fran Tarkenton

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

Paul Robeson

I was once walking through the forest alone. A tree fell right in front of me, and I didn't hear a thing.

Steven Wright

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Friedrich von Schiller

Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.

Daniel Nathans

Victory is a political fiction.

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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