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"When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up."

"Ambition is greed without makeup."

"Don't just raise the bar. Raise the roof."

"Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object " we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering."

"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."

"Everyone dreams of greatness and expects it to happen in the future automatically."

"A dream is the reality of a future that exists in a person's imagination."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."

"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."

"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."

"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."

"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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