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Quotes by American Authors

"Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened."

"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss."

"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."

"Obstacles are just opportunities in disguise."

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."

"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."

"Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such."

"Creativity is just connecting things."

"If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism."

"Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries."

"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."

"Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define."

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."

"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them."

"Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'"

"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard."

"I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred."

"Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."

"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars."

"Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson."

"Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none."

"Fighting for peace is not the solution,but loving for peace is the solution."

"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."


"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."

"America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think."

"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch."

"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."

"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."

"I think it's possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

"I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it."

"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."

"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."

"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."

"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."

"I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood."

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."
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