Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full 'Taxmageddon' scenario, President Obama's health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

Daniel Nathans

It is a fact that you project what you are.

Norman Vincent Peale

If you think you can then you can.

Stephen Richards

People have a natural tendency to flee to the mountains when things get tough.

Stuart Briscoe

We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions -- love, antipathy, charity, or malice -- and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.

Milan Kundera

I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.

Friedrich von Schiller

Philosophy is the highest music.

Plato

Scientific critics of religion such as Daniel Dennett have been generous enough to point out that apparently useless healing rituals may even have helped people get better, in that we know how important morale can be in aiding the body to fight injury and infection.

Christopher Hitchens

The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

Richard Wright