How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.

Susan Orlean

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

Lilith Saintcrow

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.

George Stigler

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

John Milton

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Kary Mullis

But I believe this: by and large, the United States ought to be able to choose for its President anybody that it wants, regardless of the number of terms he has served. That is what I believe. Now, some people have said You let him get enough power and this will lead toward a one-party government. That, I dont believe. I have got the utmost faith in the long-term common sense of the American people. Therefore, I dont think there should be any inhibitions other than those that were in the 35-year age limit and so on. I think that was enough, myself.

Dwight D Eisenhower

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

Smokey Robinson

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Henry Rollins

...so many people end up doing, consciously or not, what others expect of them, or they settle for less because they think achieving their dream is too hard. Richard Nelson Bolles and Carol Christen- Rob Sanders- pediatric physician

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I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

Shawn Johnson

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

George Eliot