The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
I find by my calculations, which are according to revealed inspiration, that the sword of death is now approaching us, in the shape of pestilence, war more horrible than has been known in three lifetimes, and famine.
I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
Stubborn isn't a word I would use to describe myself; pigheaded is more appropriate.
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
An approximate answer to the right question is worth far more than a precise answer to the wrong one.
An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.
I created jobs. Russ Feingold, during that same approximate 30 years, what did he do? He built government. He built it larger and more intrusive.
Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.
Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we're continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we've taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.
Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.
Despite probably needing one, I don't have a therapist. Why spend the money on my mental health when I can do far more productive things such as purchase iPhone apps and pay off parking tickets?
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.
Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
