William Macneile Dixon Quotes
Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.
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Being evil is easy.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.
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Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I wrote the first version of this book in 1996, in the closing years of the twentieth century. Now, almost two decades into the twenty-first, it seems we are still struggling with what W. E. B. Du Bois identified in 1906 as the “problem of the color line,” even though the demographic composition of that color line has changed quite a bit since then.
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Abraham Lincoln never denigrated, never scapegoated, never finger-pointed. And he had reason to.
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I call investing the greatest business in the world … because you never have to swing. You stand at the plate, the pitcher throws you General Motors at 47! U.S. Steel at 39! and nobody calls a strike on you. There's no penalty except opportunity lost. All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.
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Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.
