William Stephenson Quotes
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I actually wanted to go to medical school. I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer.
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A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom
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... every dog is allowed one bite.
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Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.
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The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.
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I do not like Melbourne in its present state.
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Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
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The present is a powerful deity.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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In your thinking be a goal setter, but in your actions be a goal getter.
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There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.
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Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.
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The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.
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There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
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I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.
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We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.
