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Quotes by Writer
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
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"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level."
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"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto."
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"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated."
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"Because I don't have to be careful of people's feelings when I teach literature, and I do when I'm teaching writing."
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"There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience."
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"Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England."
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"There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment."
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"Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is-- so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group."
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"Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough."
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
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"You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do."
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"Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old."
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"This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs."
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"I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me."
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"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."
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"It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful."
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"What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance."
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"If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything."
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"To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect."
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"In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites."
Fact,
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"Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible."
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"A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep."
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"He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality,known or not."
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"As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft."
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"I beg your pardon, one knows exactly what to think."
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"Men do not turn from God so easily. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot e fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of him."
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"Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives."
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"No one should part with their individuality and become that of another."
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"Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one."
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"Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit."
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"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."
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