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The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

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• Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Marriage
  • Moral
  • Morality

• I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Never
  • Child
  • Angry

• Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Family
  • May

• If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Expectations

• We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Courage
  • Confront

• It turns out that American Express honors recurring payments even if the vendor is unable to supply an accurate card number and expiration date. An Amex phone representative said this is a feature, not a bug, which makes sure my bills are paid.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • American
  • Said
  • Phone

• Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Men
  • Rose
  • Break

• I am the only candidate who is going into this contest with a positive vision of the future.

  

  Liam Fox
  • Future
  • Positive
  • Vision

• The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Night

• Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Gold

• I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Live
  • Studio
  • Performer

• John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • John Kerry
  • Windsurfing
  • Dilettante

• Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a profound connection between human beings.

  

  Elizabeth Janeway
  • Long
  • Sex
  • Connection

• Women were very, very good at 'Pong'. It was part of the dating scene. The number of people who told me they met their wife or husband playing 'Pong' was huge. They were shoulder to shoulder, talking and playing. It was body contact and verbal contact.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • People
  • Good
  • Women

• Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.

  

  Katherine Ursula Towle
  • Words
  • Thoughts

• There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Ignorance
  • Conversation
  • Fund

• In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Reality
  • Dreams
  • Morbid Condition

• I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Rock
  • Dance
  • Answers

• Bread is a staple article of diet in theory, rather than in practice. There are few who are truly fond of bread in its simplest, most pure, and most healthful state.... Is there one person in a thousand who would truly enjoy a meal of simple bread of two days old?

  

  William Alcott
  • Practice
  • Persons
  • Culinary

• The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

  

  Northrop Frye
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