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"If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech." In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none."
"The key to success is dedication to life-long learning."
"Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!"
"The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important."
"Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers."
"My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be."
"I used to be an airline pilot. I got fired because I kept locking the keys in the plane. They caught me on an 80 foot stepladder with a coat hanger."
"I once locked my keys out of my car. I had to break out of my car with a coat hanger."
"Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions."
"According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have been blessed with a small key to the world of the young. It's a place where good and evil are clearly stamped. It's a place where the better part of human nature triumphs over tragedies, and where innocence rides high. It is a great pleasure to write there, because the young have what the rest of us only envy, and that is a belief in goodness and perpetual hope."
"Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story."
"Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear."
"A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid."
"Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility."
"I think you have to accept that an artist also has a relationship with his or her art and his or her fans: you are in an open relationship whether you like it or not. Give the artist room to go into the place they create (literally or metaphorically) . And love them when they can't remember where they put their keys."
"I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord."
"I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer."
"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others."
"We must therefore turn to the child as to the key to the fate of our future life."