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8984 quotesThe race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet.
Gambling
Damon Runyon
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Writers and Writing
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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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Writers and Writing
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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A book worth reading is worth buying.
Books - Reading
John Ruskin
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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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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
Cost
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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Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
Status
John Ruskin
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
Freedom
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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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Ability
John Ruskin
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
Fishing
John Ruskin
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Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.
Rivalry
John Ruskin
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Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
Color
John Ruskin
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
Knowledge
John Ruskin
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
Skill
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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The best work never was and never will be done for money.
Work
John Ruskin
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The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
Slavery
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