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"That does almost nothing to address voters' concerns, which remain a potent factor in the campaign. The bottom line is, there's a reason Republicans keep pushing so hard against Obamacare: So far, it's working."
"I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?"
"Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?"
"The daily struggle does not arise from a purpose or a program, but from an immediate need."
"I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies. This does not make sense. The proper guidance during the life of a man should be the weight that he puts upon ethics and the amount of consideration that he has for others."
"To the extent math refers to reality, we are not certain to the extent we are certain, math does not refer to reality."
"The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it."
"Insofar as mathematics is true, it does not describe the real world. Insofar as it describes the real world, it is not true."
"He who has never been deceived by a lie does not know the meaning of bliss."
"Love is not the stupidest thing a man does, but it cannot be blamed on gravity."
"For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope."
"Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious."
"How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then it can be elected a senator, it can be elected a representative. Do you know how much it cost to be elected president of the United States? The amount has reached, billions of dollars, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion dollars, that's how much a presidential campaign costs. How much does a senatorial campaign cost? It costs 80 to 90 million dollars; or the campaign of a representative, 40 to 50 million. Is that really a democracy?"
"There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve."
"Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance."
"Misfortune does not help us to believe."
"...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?"
"For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance."
"Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system."
"The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed."
