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" My 'thing' is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that. "

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" Sleep more at night. If it's allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You'll be amazed at how much better you'll feel. "

" Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. "

" Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. "

" Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars. "

" We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough. "

" I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race. "

" Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny. "

" Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple. "

" Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now. "

" Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear. "

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" I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy. "

" The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. "

" The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. "

" If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators. "

" I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago. "

" It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it. "

" So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. "

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" Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac. "

" Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home. "

" I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. "

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" You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement. "

" Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember. "

" It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders. "