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Quotes by American Authors
"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."
"When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action."
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.""
"Don't let realism keep you from doing what you feel you need to do, even if you think it's hopeless."
"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars."
"My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been."
"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."
"Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?"
"The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."
"The undertaking of a new action brings new strength."
"Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough."
"As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it."
"No man should have a political office because he wants a job."
"If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one."
"Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul."
"People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself."
"There's a silly notion that failure's not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough."
"Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation."
"I doona need my future read. I know it involves you, and that's enough for me."
"John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up."
"Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible."
"The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything."
"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."
"Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind."
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
"When we had been married five years, we had six children. What, in God's name, was wrong with me?"
"Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live."
"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."
"Each one of these treaties is a step for the maintenance of peace, an additional guarantee against war. It is through such machinery that the disputes between nations will be settled and war prevented."
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
"Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all."
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