A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life... view

By: Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public... view

By: Matt Damon

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Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally... view

By: Peter L. Berger

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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows... view

By: Adam Garcia

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Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?.. view

By: Hermann Goering

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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment... view

By: E. L. Doctorow

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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all... view

By: Richard Wright

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Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest... view

By: Wilson Mizner

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I appreciate life, talk a lot, love to laugh, and am very optimistic... view

By: Kiana Tom

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The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival... view

By: Adrienne Rich

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In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life... view

By: Sarah Vowell

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I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to... view

By: Rowan Atkinson

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