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When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

Besides, the only thing you can control in life is your wardrobe. Cars break down when you least expect it. Boats eat money and gas. Your house, your mate, your friends, your family, even your career, are beyond your control. However, you're in total command of what you put on your back each morning.

Keeping one's guests supplied with liquor is the first law of hospitality.

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only," she wrote, "you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back.

If they can get 15 or higher, it will be a very bad night for House Speaker Paul Ryan. Ryan twisted himself into a pretzel by endorsing but not always supporting Donald Trump. Now, he's facing the prospect of a slimmer majority, with fewer moderates. Conservative members in the Freedom Caucus have already sent warning shots threatening Ryan's tenure as speaker.

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced.

The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds.

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A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

My imperfections will never override God’s promises. God’s promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once.

We want rights. The flour merchant, the house-builder, and the postman charge us no less on account of our sex; but when we endeavor to earn money to pay all these, then, indeed, we find the interest.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

Well, if you've got a one-in-a-million girl don't let her get away; cause the next one-in-a-million girl is a million girls away.

You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things

Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app!

When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

My children have often asked me why I never received a Nobel Prize. I used to tell them it was because the Nobel committee couldn’t make up its mind which of my projects to recognize.

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?