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"All your life, other people will try to take your accomplishments away from you. Don't you take it away from yourself."
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"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."

"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."

"A saw by itself holds no value, but when coupled with your labor can clear forests."

"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."

"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."
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"In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought."

"Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down."

"The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief."

"You are the reason why he exists on this earth. You don't have the right to abandon him just because he's inconvenient or has trouble in school."

"The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature-all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct."

"Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved."

"This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right."
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