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"A newspaper may somewhat arrogantly assert that it prints "all the news that's fit to print." But no newspaper yet has been moved to declare at the end of each edition, "That's the way it is," as Walter Cronkite does."
"Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason."
"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."
"A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price."
"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does."
"Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?"
"God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises."
"We are living in a highly organized state of socialism. The state is all; the individual is of importance only as he contributes to the welfare of the state. His property is only his as the state does not need it. He must hold his life and his possessions at the call of the state."
"Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over."
"Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?"
"For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment."
"Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are."
"Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us-which we do not deserve."
"There is nothing that we can see on earth which does not either show the wretchedness of man or the mercy of God. One either sees the powerlessness of man without God, or the strength of man with God."
"Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationships to man. He then becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing."
"The favor of God does not bless self-promotion"
"We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide"
"The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims."
"One does not see his thought distinctly till it is reflected in the image of another's."
"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."
