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The American sign of civic progress is to tear down the familiar and erect the monstrous.

– Shane LeslieRate it:

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

– Robert Francis KennedyRate it:

The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

– Gerald FordRate it:

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

– John F. KennedyRate it:

The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.

– Mary McCarthyRate it:

The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other.

– Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de TocquevilleRate it:

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

– Sir William PreeceRate it:

The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty.... Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of this political theory sits in its deep-seated conservatism. However radical the principles of the Revolution may have seemed to the rest of the world, in the minds of the colonists they were thoroughly preservative and respectful of the past.

– Clinton Lawrence Rossiter IIIRate it:

The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty.... Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of this political theory sits in its deep-seated conservatism. However radical the principles of the Revolution may have seemed to the rest of the world, in the minds of the colonists they were thoroughly preservative and respectful of the past.

– Clinton Lawrence Rossiter IIIRate it:

The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and constitutional liberty.... Perhaps the most remarkable characteristic of this political theory sits in its deep-seated conservatism. However radical the principles of the Revolution may have seemed to the rest of the world, in the minds of the colonists they were thoroughly preservative and respectful of the past.

– Clinton Lawrence Rossiter IIIRate it:

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

– John Stuart MillRate it:

The amount of employees' welfare decides the quantity of clients' care that the company does honestly and qualitatively.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

– Barbara SherRate it:

The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.

– Arthur SchopenhauerRate it:

The amount of time we spend thinking, criticizing, judging, worrying, calculating, fighting, hating, arguing, is not funny. Considering one third of our lives we spend sleeping and the rest is consumed by non-creative processes mentioned above... What a waste of life. Let's also stop becoming paranoid humanoids and instead simply be human beings living in joy. Mickeymize your life...

– Mickey MehtaRate it:

The amount of time we spend thinking, criticizing, judging, worrying, calculating, fighting, hating, arguing, is not funny. Considering one third of our lives we spend sleeping and the rest is consumed by non-creative processes mentioned above.What a waste of life. Let's also stop becoming paranoid humanoids and instead simply be human beings living in joy. Mickeymize your life.

– Mickey MehtaRate it:

The anagram of LEADER is DEALER. Indeed, a great Leader must be the Dealer of Dreams, Hope and Action, in my view.

– Deodatta V. Shenai-KhatkhateRate it:

The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion.

– Sigmund FreudRate it:

The anatomical juxtaposition of 2 orbicularis oris muscles in a state of contraction.

– Dr. Henry GibbonsRate it:

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

– Ralph Waldo EmersonRate it:

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

– John F. KennedyRate it:

The ancient world was not a place for modern gender equity. But the Stoic philosophers, in their discourses on political and moral life, held that virtue, or ethical excellence, had no gender. Zeno of Citium envisaged an ideal community of sages that included women. The view follows from the Stoic doctrine that all humans are endowed with reason.

– Nancy ShermanRate it:

The Angel that presided o'er my birth said, Little creature form'd of Joy & Mirth, Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth.

– Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. RosewaterRate it:

The angel grows up in divine knowledge, the brute, in savage ignorance, and the son of man stands hesitating between the two.

– PersianRate it:

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