"I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down."

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"I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals."

History, Love, Living, Professionals

"People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works."

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"I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber."

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"My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader."

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"I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities."

Education, Mother, Father, Stars

"Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project."

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"You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history."

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"The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?"

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"The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind."

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"When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book."

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