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"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."
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Personal Development
"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."
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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."
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"Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
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"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
Flying
"Aberystwyth (n.)A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for."
Sentiment
"A five-week sand blizzard?" said Deep Thought haughtily. "You ask this of me who have contemplated the very vectors of the atoms in the Big Bang itself? Molest me not with this pocket calculator stuff."
Science
"He let the curtain drop and the terrible light that had played on his features went off to play somewhere more healthy."
Emotion
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
Imagination
"Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication."
Science
"I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view."
Psychology
"A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment."
Emotion
"Gilks sighed. 'You're a clever man, Cjelli, I grant you that,' he said, 'but you make the samemistake a lot of clever people do of thinking everyone else is stupid."
Wisdom
"When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend."
Fear
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