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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Fame Light Solid Swollen
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When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

Discovering Fantasy Forever Ideas
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

Building Create Culture Even
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Advice Example Admonition Build
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

About Book Easy Finishing
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Pencil Affiction Solomon Job
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Men Superstition Observe Hit
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The sooner you learn to finish things, and as a matter of course finish your creative endeavors, the better. It took me a long time to learn that.

Better Course Creative Endeavors
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The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

Appreciate Been Brain Easier
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

About Chances Easier Find
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Sort Part Experience Education
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Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Alive Allow Also Become
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Man Philosophy Religion Depth
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Gratitude Greatest Only Others
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Natural Infant Painful Die
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Always Before Born Child
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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Cause Most Orator Vehement
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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Contend Enemy Folly Gates
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Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Look Fortune Blind Invisible
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Revenge Justice Nature Law
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

God Greatest Smallest Wire
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Spirit Genius Nation Proverbs
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Subtlety Nature Sense Greater
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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Certain Man Revenge Green
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The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

People Wise First Living
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That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.

Follow Iliction Return Flag
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

Ethical Giants Infants Know
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bravery Capacity Death Even
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This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Act Acting Battle Circumstances
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The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Atomic Certain Make Never
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I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

Best Convinced General Opinions
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
Atom Grasped Mount Mystery
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In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

Black Definitely Integrated Officers
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The secularists in Turkey haven't underestimated religion, they just made the mistake of believing they could control it with the power of the army alone.

Alone Army Believing Control
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

Abhorrent Advocate Challenge Conviction
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.

Because Being Feeling Flourish
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Always Imitation Opponents Poor
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Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.

Being Defend Dignity Europe
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

About Familiar First Form
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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Common Extraordinary Great Make
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Given Greatest Make Man
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Analyzing Career Got Ingredient
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Accomplished Aim Fixed Gaze
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

Become Control Destiny Fail
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Cannot Did Failures Get
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Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.

Deeper Grow Happen How
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I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Breakfast French Ordered Restaurant
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If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

Light Spaceship Speed Traveling
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I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Arms Heads Museums Other
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I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

Batteries Bought Included Some
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