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Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

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• I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Character

• There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Hope
  • Nothing
  • Expect

• Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Men
  • Man
  • Quality

• My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Reading
  • Waves
  • Skin

• I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Care

• A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

  

  E. B. White
  • Day
  • Writer
  • Plant

• There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Management
  • Planning

• Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Life
  • Men
  • Live

• The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.

  

  Benjamin Graham
  • War

• I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Good
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Football

• I drink seven Coca-Colas a day. Regular Coke, which is really bad for me.

  

  Brian Lee
  • Bad

• I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I've never even gotten called in on one of those roles.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Girl

• In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • World
  • Great
  • Remember

• I try not to be neurotic; I try to create and present healthy body image.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Present

• I feel like as you blossom more, you become more mature, and I'm definitely excited for whatever life has to throw at me, and knowing me, I'm definitely going to be sharing it all.

  

  Hannah Bronfman
  • Life

• Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Different
  • Action

• Make sure that when you agree with everything that's being said and when you feel passionate about your future, you take it into your hands. You do something.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Hands
  • Passionate
  • Sure

• I don't think I have the stamina anymore and I certainly don't have the health.

  

  Eric Reeves
  • Health
  • Don't Think
  • Stamina

• Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • People
  • Me
  • New York

• Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not a natural campaigner, and on the stump he instinctively recoils from any personal connection with the voters.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Mind
  • Rest
  • Connection

• We love comfort, and people make a lot of money selling us comfort, but I would challenge the notion that comfort is usually good for us.

  

  Daniel Lieberman
  • People
  • Pain
  • Challenges

• Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

  

  Powell Clayton