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William Godwin

"My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image."

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"My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image."

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"Think of what you desire out of life."

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"Most people don't think most of the time. They just use other people's thoughts as a crutch to get by."

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"I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right."

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"It is too ordinary for us to think we are too ordinary. It is too unwise for us to think we are too wise. It is too sinful for us to think we are too sinful beyond pardon. It would be too unrighteous for us to think we are too righteous. There is always something we may think about, but let us think about something!"

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"I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them."

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"I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible."

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"But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was serious misconduct, you don't wait until the Thursday before the Tuesday. You run it early."

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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

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"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
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"The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men."
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"Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire."
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"As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking."
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"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."
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"The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself."
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"Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil."
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