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Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

I'm still a recluse. I still hate everyone. I'm still a misanthrope.

Every day we hear about a new invention here and there and they are reducing considerably their consumption of oil. But the day they use hydrogen for transportation, this is the day that oil disappears.

Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing

I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.

The future is not what it used to be.

I see my practice as picture making. Whatever is available, I use.

When I see someone from Beijing owning 50 houses in Auckland I don't think that's neo-racist

I used to always have a pretty high, little clear voice, but as I got older, I got a little cornbread in it.

I grew up in Venezuela, and when I was 14-years-old, my parents decided to sell everything and come to America. Five of us lived in a two bedroom house. It wasn't a sad truth, it was just the way it was [at the time]. That feeling is so universal for every immigrant.

I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house.

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.

The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.

Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull and Jean Béliveau probably looked at us in the '80s and said, "These guys are soft. We used to take the train."

Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

Ben was really a contrarian but he didn't use those terms because he was really buying value.

You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.

I didn't squawk about the steak, dear. I merely said I didn't see that old horse that used to be tethered outside here.