Zebulon Pike Quotes
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.
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I always have issues with trust.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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I have always believed in quality work.
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I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.
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Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.
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The threat to Russia isn't liberal Europe or America. It is nonliberal Islam and nonliberal China. Russia has to change. It can't be otherwise. It will take time. You have to be patient.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
