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- Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know
- An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and…
- By the time you've run your mind through it a hundred times, relentlessly worked out every tic of terror, it's lost its power over you...Soon…
- So, when I write a piece of fiction I select my characters and settings and so on because they have a bearing, at least to…
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle