Ralph Ellison Quotes
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I think the biggest difference is in live action, you show up, and there's a set there and a ground to stand on, at least, and in animation, there's kinda nothing. You are making decisions on everything.
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Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.
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A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
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The nation certainly would have been better off if President Clinton could have focused on Osama bin Laden without being distracted by the Paula Jones sexual harassment case and its criminal investigation offshoots.
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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
