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- People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
- A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away,…
- It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up…
- Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.
- The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a…
- Life's accumulation is more discouraging than life itself, when stirred up.
- Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
- I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time…
- A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
- To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
- Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
- There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
- I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
- English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
- An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
- The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and…
- Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one
- I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting…
- Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar to…
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle