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This is Alvin Smith, said Cooper. He's a man of inestimable abilities, but only because nobody has cared enough to estimate them.

Orson Scott Card

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.

Samuel Osgood

The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the sick and imparts to them his own which are perfect health, and his explanation destroys their feelings or disease. . . . He is like a captain who knows his business and feels confident in a storm, and his confidence sustains the crew and ship when both would be lost if the captain should give way to his fears.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby

One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government's primary concerns.

Ronald Reagan

And say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Aldous Huxley, Miss Thriplow, in

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.

Ronald Reagan

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Kahlil Gibran

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

Xenophon

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

Ben Stiller

What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.

Beth Revis