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Quotes by Writer
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
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"It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry."
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"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
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"We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes."
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"When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes."
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"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
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"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."
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"Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back."
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"Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire...They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear."
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"Start each action with overwhelming positivity enthusiasm and each action will be overwhelmingly successful."
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"The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious."
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"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."
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"On one hand she seems so agile, so athletic, and yet I've seen her appear so awkward that it embarrassed me. She gives the impression of a hard, worldly adroitness, and in some situations she's like an adolescent: rigid with ancient, middle class attitudes, unable to think for herself, falling back on old verities...victim of her family teaching, shocked by what shocks people, wanting what people usually want. She wants a home, a husband, and her idea of a husband is a man who earns a certain amount of money, helps around the garden, does the dishes...the idea of a good husband that's found in This Week magazine; a viewpoint from the most ordinary stratum, that great ubiquitous world of family life, transmitted from generation to generation. Despite her wild language."
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"Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life."
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"Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty."
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"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
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"I got desire to be alive when i got believe in your embrace i will die.Believe had Broken and desire Lost."
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"You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward."
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"And there was this jerk named Dwayne who kept saying, 'Go on, have a beer. You know you want one. One little beer's not going to hurt ya. You haven't had a drink for three years. You can handle it.'" He looked at me again. "You know?"I nodded."Caught me when I was vulnerable. You know, when I was still breathing."
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"When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project."
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"Had no need of a guide to learn ignorance."
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"Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail."
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"Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that which you refuse to know, is an account of infamy growing in your soul. Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not forgive or accept any break of morality."
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"For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all the evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and of an unspeakable lie.The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages."
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"Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in theirpower, which no subsequent connections can supply.."
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"Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort."
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"Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive."
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"If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact."
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"When humanity dies, what happens to all the people?"
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