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Quotes by Author
"We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."
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"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise."
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"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
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"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" - and find that there is no death."
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"I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old."
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"The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh."
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"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."
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"The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep."
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"Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser, of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse."
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"The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent."
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"I have felt that odd whirr of wings in the head."
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"This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification."
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"It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood."
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"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things."
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"Stay inspired by feeding your mind with positive, healthy, mental food through reading or listening to good inspirational, motivational, and educational material."
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"The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
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"For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced."
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"I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot."
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"The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity."
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"Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit."
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"Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money."
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"Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work."
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"The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war."
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"Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain."
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"Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret."
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"It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak."
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"I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer."
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"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
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"Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different."
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