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"In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won't happen. As the day approached, my warm bed and comfortable house grew increasingly desirable and my dear wife incalculably precious. To give these up for three months for the terrors of the uncomfortable and unknown seemed crazy. I didn't want to go. Something had to happen to forbid my going, but it didn't."

"Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream."

"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."

"Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning."
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"The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good."

"There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot."

"In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies."
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