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  • #1
    Orson Scott Card
    “None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.”
    Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

  • #2
    C.S. Lewis
    “Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.”
    C.S. Lewis

  • #3
    James Thurber
    “Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.”
    James Thurber

  • #4
    William Faulkner
    “I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”
    William Faulkner

  • #5
    Charles Proteus Steinmetz
    “There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.”
    Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  • #6
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #7
    George Bernard Shaw
    “When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #8
    Ernest Hemingway
    “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #9
    “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
    Bob Samples

  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.”
    Mark Twain

  • #11
    Theodore Roosevelt
    “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
    Theodore Roosevelt

  • #12
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    “The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.”
    Thomas Henry Huxley

  • #13
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    “What is history but a fable agreed upon?”
    Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  • #14
    “Our actions are all that separate our daydreams from our goals.”
    Roy H. Williams

  • #15
    “Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.”
    Roy H. Williams

  • #16
    George Moore
    “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
    George Augustus Moore, The Brook Kerith

  • #17
    Henry Van Dyke
    “It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.”
    Henry Van Dyke

  • #18
    Samuel Johnson
    “Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.”
    Samuel Johnson

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #20
    Samuel Johnson
    “Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”
    Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

  • #21
    Plato
    “I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.”
    Plato

  • #22
    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    Herbert Bayard Swope

  • #23
    John Boyle O'Reilly
    “Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you;
    Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
    Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
    Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.”
    John Boyle O'Reilly, Life of John Boyle O'Reilly

  • #24
    Abraham Lincoln
    “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #25
    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”
    Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent

  • #26
    “I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't always want to see. And that can be risky and you have to pay for that. (Ramon Estevez) on Inside the Actor's Studio”
    Martin Sheen

  • #27
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #28
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

  • #29
    Anne Lamott
    “Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of.”
    Anne Lamott

  • #30
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Diggers



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