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Quotes by American Authors
"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."
"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."
"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful."
"Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class."
"We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious."
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
"Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem."
"I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do."
"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
"I don't like to practice ahead of time what I'm going to say."
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward."
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.""
"If it's important enough, you'll make the time."
"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."
"A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare."
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
"I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
"I went whole hog at the actor's lifestyle - really embraced it. I had by then known how much I loved acting already, because I discovered acting from a teacher in the seminary - that's the first place I ever did it, in the seminary."
"Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that."
"The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear."
"Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste."
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
"Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is."
"Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live."
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