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Quotes by American Authors
"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters."
"Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."
"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch."
"Human freedom involves our capacity to pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight."
"We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches."
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."
"The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders."
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard."
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence."
"Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class."
"Some women have become far too proscriptive of other women's pleasures and private arrangements, and the definition of feminism has become ideologically overloaded."
"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."
"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia."
"Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none."
"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."
"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."
"The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy."
"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it."
"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
"America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think."
"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared."
"We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward."
"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."
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."
"The integration of information and vulnerabilities move together."
"Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and throw me into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan far below. Yes, I was using a legendary and enchanted means of travel to transcend the border between one dimension and the next, and on my way to an epic struggle between ancient and elemental forces.But all i could think to say, between panting breaths, was, "Yeah. Sure. They couldn't possibly have made this an escalator."
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