Quotes about american-writer
american-writer education receptive withhold
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. Agnes Repplier
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
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The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. Elbert Hubbard
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size. Eric Hoffer
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The plastic on your sandwich really doesn't have to be made to last 50 years.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old. Carl Van Vechten
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I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience. Augusten Burroughs
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Many of those who argue for vouchers say that they simply want to use competition to improve public education. I don't think it works that way, and I've been watching this for a longtime. Jonathan Kozol
american-writer choose good knowledge strength wisdom
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. John Cheever
american-writer choose good knowledge strength wisdom
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
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Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger? Sean Hannity
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When revenues are short, one of the first things you can do is cut back on services.
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The future of that ancient chamber remains in considerable doubt. Robert A. Dahl
american-writer glorious
Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.
american-writer class
I could have had class. I could have been a contender. Budd Schulberg
american-writer leadership responsibility
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute. William Pollard
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Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. Will Cuppy
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You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Larry McMurtry
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One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.
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King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur. Lloyd Alexander
american-writer buy
You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Mitch Albom
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We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net. Cynthia Heimel
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Nobody's a natural. You work to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. Paul Gallico
american-writer life means ourselves risky seek worth
To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.
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You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way? Paul Vixie
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It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.
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This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody! Peter Stone
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Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great). Frederik Pohl
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He does what I have always needed to have done to me, and that is that he dominates me. Jean Stafford
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He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. Raymond Chandler
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That certainly is one approach to take. My own is to acknowledge the inner child and try to work with my first fascination with science fiction. I have tried to build on its idea content and narrative drive rather than to discard them. James Gunn
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg-I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off. Ray Bradbury