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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Charles Horton Cooley American Sociologist

The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated.

Janet Leigh American Actress

It's a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

Evan Hunter American Author

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

Morris Dees American Lawyer

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

William Wordsworth English Poet

I'm not a toy boy, bellybutton band, so I don't have to worry about that. Actually, I never did.

Juice Newton American Musician

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Sophia Loren Italian Actress

In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on.

Robert Capa American Photographer

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Richard Bach American Novelist

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

John Polkinghorne British Physicist

Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.

Martin Frost American Politician

People who know, know. The others, it really doesn't matter.

David McCallum Scottish Actor

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Walter Savage Landor English Poet

Avarice seems to have so pervaded our vital principles as to battle all hopes of a remedy but for peace and plenty.

Edmund Pendleton American Politician

I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.

Eminem American Musician

If you start with character, you probably will end up with good drawings.

Chuck Jones American Director

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Abraham Lincoln American President

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

Charles Kuralt American Journalist

Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

Will Rogers American Actor

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Samuel Butler British Poet