Horace Greeley Quotes
Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.
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For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
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I increasingly see organized religion as actually my enemy. They treat me as their enemy. Not all Christians, of course. Not all Jews, not all Muslims.
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.
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Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission's work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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I accept reality and dare not question it.
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I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
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I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
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When lightning strikes you want to be there, right there in the room. You, not everybody`s going to say yes to you. Just don`t ever say no to yourself, ever.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.
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I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.
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Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.
