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George Washington quote: "99% of failures come from people who make excuses."
99% of failures come from people who make excuses. George Washington
Hannah Arendt quote: "Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because..."
Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves. Hannah Arendt
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the book and I enjoyed raping and ripping by proxy. It is the novelist’s innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself. Anthony Burgess
Armies have spent a lot of time and effort training their soldiers not to think of the enemy as human beings. It’s so much easier to kill them if you think of them as dangerous animals. The trouble is, war isn’t about killing. It’s about getting the enemy to stop resisting your will. Like training a dog not to bite. Punishing him leaves you with a beaten dog. Killing him is a permanent solution, but you’ve got no dog. If you can understand why he’s biting and remove the conditions that... Orson Scott Card
Viktor E. Frankl quote: "Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of..."
Fear makes come true that which one is afraid of... Viktor E. Frankl
It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere. Douglas Adams
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them. Paulo Freire
And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall. David Herbert Lawrence
Joseph Wood Krutch quote: "Technology made large populations possible; large populations..."
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable. Joseph Wood Krutch
People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Pearl S. Buck quote: "If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to..."
If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being. Pearl S. Buck
I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet discovered that I lived in a sort of transparent balloon, drifting over the world without making much contact with it, and that the people I knew appeared to me at a different angle from the one at which they appeared to themselves; and that the reverse was also true. I was smaller to others, up there in my balloon, than I was to myself. I was also blurrier. Margaret Atwood
Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day! J. R. R. Tolkien
I'm vile and perverted. I'm obsessed and deranged. I've existed for years but very little has changed. I'm the tool of the government and industry too. For I'm destined to rule and regulate you. You may think I'm pernicious, but you can't look away. I'll make you think I'm delicious with the stuff that I say. I'm the best you can get... have you guessed me yet? I'm the slime oozing out of your TV set.... Frank Zappa
Ayn Rand quote: "Get the hell out of my way!" Said by John Galt as the leaders..."
Get the hell out of my way!" Said by John Galt as the leaders of the country tried to make him become their dictator. Ayn Rand

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