Conn Iggulden Quotes
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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Too many trees are killed to print the words of people who may not have all that much to say, and authors and journalists are equally culpable in this regard.
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The Garden of Wonders project encompasses the knowledge that Be Open has accumulated over the years of work on different continents and different spheres.
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When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety.
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My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset.
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I don't have the confidence to be a personality.
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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Mr. Augustus Minns was a bachelor, of about forty as he said - of about eight-and-forty as his friends said. He was always exceedingly clean, precise, and tidy: perhaps somewhat priggish, and the most retiring man in the world.
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Millions do not always add up to what a man needs out of life.
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It's rewarding to know that I have young people in the gym who have the same goals as I had, and now I can help them reach those goals.
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Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.
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I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!
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Especially in wind, each shot and stance can feel different, so it's important to first get comfortable.
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Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.
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Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.
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True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
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We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.
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What we're going to do is redouble our efforts on financial regulatory reform, because that has in it sensible things like say on pay, so at least the shareholders are minding the store, sensible things like saying, for heaven's sakes, compensation should be focused on - on long term, so that you don't have rewards for short-term risk-taking.
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Whoever controls the heart of the land, controls the world
