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Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly strikingSometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer.

For if I wimp my wing on thine. Affliction shall advance the flight in me.

Sorrow hath chang'd its note : such is His will Who changeth all things

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And all I can say to them is read my lips No New Taxes.

I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.

The shapes of time are the prey we want to capture

More and more, the universe looks like a great thought rather than a great machine," says astronomer Sir James Jeans.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

Give my regards to Broadway,Remember me to Herald Square,Tell all the gang at Forty-second StreetThat I will soon be there.

Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.

I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.

Walking the plank is a Victorian fiction, and I will not have it on my ship!

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.

And if I drink oblivion of a day,So shorten I the stature of my soul.

The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.

What are we first? First, animals; and nextIntelligences at a leap; on whomPale lies the distant shadow of the tomb.

The whole business is built on ego,vanity,self-satisfaction , and its total crap to pretend its not

God does not take sides in American politics, and in America disagreement with the policies of the government is not evidence of lack of patriotism.