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Quotes by American Authors
"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."
"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays."
"It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person."
"A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated."
"But I would make it unambiguously clear that we are going to withdraw, and if Iraq falls into civil war and if all these unhappy things occur, we're just going to have to accept them."
"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
"Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else."
"Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired."
"We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness."
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."
"We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?"
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."
"The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive."
"I never was disillusioned with acting because I love acting."
"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."
"Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world."
"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."
"What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person."
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
"Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa."
"The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions."
"Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical."
"Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals."
"I definitely feel a difference about my place in the industry. I feel like I have some longevity now."
"You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough."
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
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