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Quotes by American Authors
"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."
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"Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people."
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"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality."
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"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."
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"There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry."
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"Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off.""
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"Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star."
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"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others."
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"I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English."
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"If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them."
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"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
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"It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me."
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"Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines."
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"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."
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"For me, our beaches have always been a source of personal inspiration."
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"I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it and then you let it go because you can't waste many brain cells on hours thinking about it."
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"I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way."
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"It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured."
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"One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word."
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"Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood."
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"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."
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"In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help."
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"I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not."
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"The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it."
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"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
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"If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough."
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"You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside."
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"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
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"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
Life,
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"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression."
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