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"The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet
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"The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future."

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"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
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"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."
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"I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does."
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"The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."
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"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."
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"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."
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"To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal."
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"Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together."

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"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

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"Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness."

Herman Melville, American Novelist
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"Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written."

William Faulkner, American Novelist
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"John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded."

Barack Obama, American President
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"I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat."

Hank Aaron, American Athlete
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"My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it."

Sam Abell, American Photographer
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"A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes."

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"Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak."

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"Your mind is what makes everything else work."

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