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Of course, both major parties today seek to serve the national interest. They would do so in order to obtain the broadest base of support, if for no nobler reason. But when party and officeholder differ as to how the national interest is to be served, we must place first the responsibility we owe not to our party or even to our constituents but to our individual consciences.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.

Italian Proverb

When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.

Joan Didion

While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.

Carol Bellamy

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Samuel Johnson

The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Warren Spahn

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

Samuel Johnson

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

Wilson Mizner

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

William Cobbett

What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet.

William Shakespeare

There are only about a half dozen things that make 80% of the difference in any area of our lives.

Jim Rohn