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“Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.”

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“All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.”

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When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now…

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“They only think they think. No total vision, total system, merely schemes with a vague family resemblance, no more identity than bridges and, say,…

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“Except in stock locutions, such as "You were paid yesterday," "The Germans were defeated," or "The project was abandoned," the passive voice is virtually…

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“The instruction here is not for every kind of writer - not for the writer of nurse books or thrillers or porno or the…

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“Good writers may “tell” about almost anything in fiction except the characters’ feelings. One may tell the reader that the character went to a…

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“the chief offense in bad fiction: we sense that characters are being manipulated, forced to do things they would not really do.”

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“There seems little or no hope for the adult writer who produces sentences like these: "Her cheeks were thick and smooth and held a…

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“In any long fiction, Henry James remarked, use of the first-person point of view is barbaric. James may go too far, but his point…

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Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know

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A nation that values bad philosophy above good plumbing will have neither good philosophy nor good plumbing

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The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else…

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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

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Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

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Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life?

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“Second letter from Mom: So! What if you colored the world? This still does not seem a great thing. In fact it seems very…

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I have so much respect for the country, I don't like blanket indictments. There's a lot of really great things about this country.

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In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

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The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

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I don’t know, I don’t know that I’m missing anything. I just think too much sometimes. Sometimes I’m even happy because I’m so engaged…

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The great thing about an independent film is that you're too busy working, and you're too busy hoping to God to get it done.

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Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey.

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I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it…

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