Samuel Quotes
When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.
There has been an Irish lobby that has impacted U.S. foreign policy for a century and a half, and at times made our relations with Great Britain very difficult. Other comparable lobbies exist.
Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.
Both sides are divided and Western countries collaborate with Muslim countries and vice versa.
I think it's hard to talk about the Muslim world and Christian world as blocks.
Maybe Iraq will come back and become the dominant power among Arab countries. That seems to me as conceivable.
Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.
To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.
Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.
To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.
Find myself £43 worse than I was the last month ... chiefly arisen from my layings-out in clothes for myself and wife; viz., for her, about £12, and for myself, £55 or thereabouts.
Topologically, men and women are identical. Some things are just larger and more developed in one than the other and positioned differently.
A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.
All too often, when creative people pick out someone else's creative work as an inspiration, what they end up with is very, very far from the original.
Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else.
The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.
Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.
Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.
The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the Constitution considered it an individual right.
A textual analysis of the Second Amendment supports an individual right to bear arms.
The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.
By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
