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Quotes by Author
"No art is harder to master than believing in yourself."
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"The government can pass bills, but only the Great Healer can heal a broken soul."
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"Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be."
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"To stay grounded and feel secure, I choose:Faith over fear;Action over procrastination;Focus over distraction;Reflection over reaction."
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"What I do is the truest mirror of who I am."
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"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."
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"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."
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"I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow."
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"You have authority in your mouth, hence don't need to be afraid; but rather positively affirm!"
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"He'd been an angel once. He hadn't meant to Fall. He'd just hung around with the wrong people."
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"A task is only difficulty, when we not find the best strategy to get it done."
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"...because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds."
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"But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about?"
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"There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption."
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"Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged."
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"We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior."
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"When you rely on the principles of truth, they take you far."
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"Those who understand the problem are those who see it clearly."
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"If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom."
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"Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations."
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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it. Praise in due order; of Him as the giver, of her as the gift. Don't we in praise somehow enjoy what we praise, however far we are from it? I must do more of this."
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"Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric."
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"If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't."
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"Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture."
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"I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave."
Man,
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"Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map."
Old,
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"You have the sense of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch, so that you can feel everything in life. They are "feeling" senses, because they enable you to feel what you see, feel what you hear, feel what you taste, feel what you smell and touch. Your entire body is covered with a fine layer of skin, which is a feeling organ, so you can feel everything. How you feel in any one moment is more important than anything else, because how you feel right now is creating your life."
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"The real question is: How do you react? What do you do next? Evade responsibilities? Bury yourself in work? What do you do? All three of my novels take up that question, although none gives an answer."
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"As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system."
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"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."
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"The believer claims to know, not just that God exists, but that his most detailed wishes are not merely knowable but actually known. Since religion drew its first breath when the species lived in utter ignorance and considerable fear, I hope I may be forgiven for declining to believe that another human being can tell me what to do, in the most intimate details of my life and mind, and to further dictate these terms as if acting as proxy for a supernatural entity."
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"The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets."
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"If a child is roughly treated and not respected and not shown love, the child will have problems with self-esteem."
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"Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it."
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