"I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society."

Society, Work, Life, Want

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"I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society."

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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"Large families are communities unto their own."

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"A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me."

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"It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself."

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"I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think."

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"When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me."

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"When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough."

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"I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading."

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"In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality."

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"I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along."

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"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air."

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"I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy."

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