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7190 quotesBooks choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Writers and Writing
Salman Rushdie
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Freedom of Speech
Salman Rushdie
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Events
Salman Rushdie
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Myth
Salman Rushdie
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
Thoughts and Thinking
Salman Rushdie
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Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.
Blasphemy
Salman Rushdie
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Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.
Blasphemy
Salman Rushdie
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One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
Persuasion
Dean Rusk
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We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
Negotiation
Dean Rusk
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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
Greatness
John Ruskin
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An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.
Imagination
John Ruskin
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Books - Reading
John Ruskin
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Books - Reading
John Ruskin
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Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
Status
John Ruskin
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
Imagination
John Ruskin
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
Pride
John Ruskin
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It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
Restraint
John Ruskin
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
Economy and Economics
John Ruskin
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
Photography
John Ruskin
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People cannot live by lending money to one another.
Borrowing
John Ruskin
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
Slavery
John Ruskin
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Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.
Spirit and Spirituality
John Ruskin
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The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.
Anger
John Ruskin
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The best thing in life aren't things.
Value
John Ruskin
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The best work never was and never will be done for money.
Work
John Ruskin
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun