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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. . . a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.

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Alfred North Whitehead

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

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The motive of success is not enough.

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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

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Human nature loses its most precious quality when it is robbed of its sense of things beyond, unexplored and yet insistent.

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Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

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Writing is a concentrated form of thinking. . . a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.

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Freddie Mercury

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Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

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If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.

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In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.

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Sergei Lukyanenko

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But even if we were to disappear, people would still be divided into people and Others. No matter how those Others were different. People can't get by without Others. Put two people on an uninhabited island, and you'll have a human being and an Other. And the difference is that an Other is always tormented by his differentness. It's easier for people. They know they're people, and that's what they ought to be. And they all have no choice but to be that way. All of them, forever.

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