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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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Personal Development
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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Personal Development
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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Personal Development
"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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Personal Development
"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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Personal Development
"Give light and people will find the way."
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Personal Development
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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Personal Development
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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Personal Development
"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
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Personal Development
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
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"Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built."
Research
"I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves."
Work
"English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it."
Ability
"I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do."
Joy
"So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain."
Writing
"You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation."
Hope
"Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies."
Friendship
"My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953."
Battle
"It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find."
Want
"Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it."
People
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