Category: writer
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Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.
Simon Sinek
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I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.
Kurt Vonnegut
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To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’
Ayn Rand
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‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
Alice Walker
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
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Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie
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Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust
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All my books are accidental books – they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, ‘Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?’ I don’t care.
Arundhati Roy
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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus
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This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens