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"You create your world with your thoughts."

"Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies."

"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"

"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."

"Television has tremendous power over our lives."
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"Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing."

"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."

"I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists."

"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic."

"I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way."

"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."

"On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in."
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