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Quotes by American Authors
"A man without a vote is man without protection."
"Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things."
"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."
"Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them."
"If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering."
"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."
"There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
"I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds."
"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes."
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
"Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female."
"People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything."
"Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less."
"Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!"
"What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
"Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards."
"If I can't see the humor in it, how am I going to be funny?"
"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."
"That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities."
"I think it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."
"The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team."
"The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek."
"A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus."
"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
"Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies."
"The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart."
"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."
"I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone."
"I'm not ready for another series. I have fun doing other kinds of things."
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