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Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.

It's not the time to look for excuses.

They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing, there is mixed up any thing lascivious or impure; as also all secular actions; vain and therefore profane conversations, all walking about, noise, and clamour, that so the house of God may be seen to be, and may be called, truly a house of prayer.

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.

Rivalry causes us to overemphasize old opportunities and slavishly copy what has worked in the past.

Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely.

California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Bullies want to abuse you. Instead of allowing that, you can use them as your personal motivators. Power up and let the bully eat your dust.

My pick up line is: Slow down sugar, cause I’m a diabetic!

A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.

Halfway down a by-street of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, facing towards various points of the compass, and a huge, clustered chimney in the midst. The street is Pyncheon Street; the house is the old Pyncheon House; and an elm-tree, of wide circumference, rooted before the door, is familiar to every town-born child by the title of the Pyncheon Elm.

If I get an order to evacuate a Jew from his home, to expel him, me, personally, my conscience would not let me do it. I'll ask my commander to excuse me, but I won't publicly call on others to refuse an order. I personally can't.

I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

Be willing that any feeling can visit your house.

I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

I do not support child abuse. It's a disgusting crime of which I am a victim.

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.