Eric Knight Quotes
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Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
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You've got to be realistic.
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I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine.
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Nobody else is Tiger Woods. Not on this planet.
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Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.
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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
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The good that binds us is Love, it comes from our Soul, it flows through our center, and connects us with everything.
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If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error but I maximize, at the same time, the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important and most rewarding things in life.
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The people who lived behind those clean lace curtains in row after row of identical boxes were newspaper readers, and every word in at any rate my newspaper must be clear and comprehensible to them, must be interesting to them, must encourage them to break away from littleness, stimulate their ambition, help them to want to build a better land.
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Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first.
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Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
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Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
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Question every assumption and go towards the problem, like the way they flew to the moon. We should have more moon shots and flights to the moon in areas of societal importance.
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A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.
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Shame could wrench just as fear did. Thinking how other men would have behaved in his place was the most searching form of humiliation that he knew; and he knew a good many.
