If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

Malcolm X

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

Bertrand Russell

Ninety-nine percent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings which develop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning.

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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Johann von Goethe

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

Joel Coen

It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.

Dorothy Day

If you start most of your sentences with 'Why Can't', 'Why Not', or 'What if', you'll build a stronger imagination.

Corey Aaron Burkes

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

Paul Gauguin

Men need to understand, and women too, what feminism is really about.

Annie Lennox

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.

Orson Scott Card

I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.

Andrew Davies

Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure.

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