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Quotes by American Authors
"Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions."
"We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction."
"If it's important enough, you'll make the time."
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
"Whatever insults my State insults me."
"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
"I have had all of the disadvantages required for success."
"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
"I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it."
"Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person."
"Education is the foundation upon which we build our future."
"When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out one against the other I take the course indicated by what remains."
"As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game."
"Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage."
"I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it."
"I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing."
"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss."
"Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind."
"Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress."
"Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss."
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."
"Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion."
"We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA."
"You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve."
"Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice."
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
"If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by."
"The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
"But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working."
"The art of communication is the language of leadership."
"A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success."
"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life."
"Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes."
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