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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."

"If you want to know the value of a month, ask a pregnant woman, if a month matters in her pregnancy."

"If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication."

"Many a man was caused to perish by something that he and many men cherish."

"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all."

"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."

"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
Explore more quotes by Martin Sheen

"I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth."

"Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting."

"This Administration has led us into an area without vision. Bush has no clear understanding of what is being asked of the citizens, and the military is under his direction."

"I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother."

"I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States."

"What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch."

"I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it."

"No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart."

"When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity."

"The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality."
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