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My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
Barack Obama

Life, Faith, Family

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Eminem

Life, Home, Nice

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
Aristotle

Children, Mothers, Fathers

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
Audrey Hepburn

Book, Thinking, Through

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud

Freedom, Frightened, Involves

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur

Great, Working, Nation

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.
Frank Zappa

Stupidity, Universe, Building

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
Dolly Parton

Jokes, Dumb, Blonde

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner

Nice, Down, Meet

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
Ronald Reagan

Goes, Generation, Known

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.
Erma Bombeck

Wrong, Kids, House

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
John Wooden

Great, Winning, Eyes

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan

Great, Human, Growth

Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
Ronald Reagan

Strong, Four, Lifetime

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle

Power, Democracy, Rich

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
Ronald Reagan

Political, Another, State

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats

Dreams, Poor, Feet

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
Judith Viorst

Music, Laughter, Friends

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Sorry, Point

It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't available.
Ronald Reagan

Food, Country, Difficult

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent Peale

Success, Attitude, Failure

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
Aristotle

Courage, Human, Others

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra

Enough, Eat, Four

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Benjamin Franklin

Everything, Why, She

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell

Love, Marriage, Spiritual

So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect.
Ellen DeGeneres

Marriage, Live, Bad

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin

Call, Manners, Savages

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.
Chris Rock

Control, Gun, Innocent

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership, Art, Someone

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