"Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list."

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"Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island."

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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land."

Billy Sunday, American Clergyman

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"Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence."

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"And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only."

Donald Cargill, Scottish Clergyman

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"All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement."

Owen Hart, Canadian Entertainer

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"Here I found those who had set out before me, both by sea and land, except those who have died."

Junipero Serra, Spanish Clergyman

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"Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated."

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"In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin."

Desmond Tutu, South African Leader

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"In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action."

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"I have more information in one place than anybody in the world."

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"Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It's not like they're a bunch of idiots."

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"There were probably, what, 300 science-fiction members in the SFWA, of whom probably a hundred were active members in the sense that they were selling something every year, or every couple years."

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"I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away."

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"The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?"

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"We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be."

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"I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of."

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"You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen."

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