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“As it is not a settled question, you must clear your mind of the fancy withwhich we all begin as children, that the institutions under which we live,including our legal ways of distributing income ...”
“For "as great a blessing as government is," the Rev. Peter Whitney explained, "like other blessings, it may become a scourge, a curse, and severe punishment to a people." What made it so, what turn...”
“Power always and everywhere had had a pernicious, corrupting effect upon men. It "converts a good man in private life to a tyrant in office." It acts upon men like drink: it "is known to be intoxic...”
“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. ”
“Dissociation of the mind into logic-tight compartments is by no means confined to the population of the asylum. It is a common, and perhaps inevitable, occurrence in the psychology of every human b...”
“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.", September 14, 1958)”
“If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.”
“That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, t...”
“It is so simple: the choices we make in our everyday lives, the things we do (or not) for others, define the world we live in.”
“It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.”
“I believe that you're great, that there's something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment...”
“They may try to stop you by their words and deeds, but like air you will rise above it all. You are unstoppable”
“Im not out to compete with any one, Im here to complete, by encouraging and inspiring souls through a text at a time”
“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ”
“Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. What is the egg to the eagle? he asked me”
“There is no time to waste in life and there is no cut and paste as well, only copy and paste you can only emulate others”
“We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!”
“Sometimes crisis triggers the genius within”
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
“Instead of begging to be picked by others, you have the choice to pick yourself and build your brand”
