See where Congress passed a two billion dollar bill to relieve bankers' mistakes. You can always count on us helping those who have lost part of their fortune, but our whole history records nary a case where the loan was for the man who had absolutely nothing. Our theory is to help only those who can get along, even if they don't get a loan.

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

Howard Nemerov

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

Lee Iacocca

Seeing a defense is easier than changing it. Only with patience and tenderness might a person surrender his barbed armor for a softer shield. Perhaps in this lies the key to the good lifehttp://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200906/happiness

Joshua Wolf Shenk, What Makes Us

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle -- victorious.

Vince Lombardi

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

Peter Singer

I trust, that your readers will not construe my words to mean, that I would not have gone to a 3 o'clock in the morning session, for the sake of defeating the Nebraska bill.

Gerrit Smith

More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.

Billy Joel

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Bertrand Russell

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

Neil Gaiman

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

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These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.Mandela's son Makgatho died on Jan. 6, 2005 of illness related to AIDS, at age 54.

Nelson Mandela, Cape Times, July