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All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when… — Ansel Adams
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone… — Edward Abbey
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. — Edward Abbey
The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic. — Edward Abbey
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and… — Edward Abbey
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life is… — Allan Bloom
Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most of the best… — Michael Chekhov
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than… — Karl Marx
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty… — Hannah Arendt
Whatseems to take place outside ideology (to be precise, in the street), in reality takes place in ideology. What really takes place in ideology seems… — Louis Althusser
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing — Thucydides
In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away… — Thucydides
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder. — Jimmy Carter
I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours. — Nicholas Sparks
There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is… — Sherwood Anderson
As far as pacing the shoot is concerned, I know when I've got it. I don't think there's any reason to take ten takes unless… — Debbie Allen
The appeal of science fiction has always been its iconoclasm . . . But in order to be an iconoclast, an author must be more… — Alfred Bester
For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of… — Thomas M. Disch
After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they… — Madeleine L'Engle
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work,… — Madeleine L'Engle
Becoming an actress takes a lot longer than being a star. I don't want to be a star. I want to be an actress. I… — Carol Alt
Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough… — Mike Tyson
A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture,… — Malcolm X

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