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Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.
Men might as well project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against the stormy North Atlantic Ocean.
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
Siamese Cats have a way of staring at you. Those who have walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will know the expression.
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.
The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide has not been an opera. It has however been a tapestry, if you count a woven bath towel as a tapestry.
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.
You can't have an ending. It's impossible. Because unlike in the movies, life goes on. You're never at the end until you die.
I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
I got married at twenty-five and had children right away, so I didn't have the worry that I would never get to have children.
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.
As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.
A woman I should like to think I know rather well and a woman I had always considered a mystery, are in fact the same person.
How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.
Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives.
A just cause needs no interpreting. It carries its own case. But the unjust argument since it is sick, needs clever medicine.
A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.
I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.
I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
Infinite Spirit, open the way for my great abundance. I am an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to me by Divine Right.
Today is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.
To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark. The dark still sees you.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
It may be the coldest day of The year, what does he think of That? I mean, what do I? And if I do, Perhaps I am myself again.
What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.
I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Our art is a way of being dazzled by truth: the light on the grotesquely grimacing retreating face is true, and nothing else.
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.
If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.
It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence.
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
America should treasure its rare, true original voices and Mark Leyner is one of them. So treasure him already, you bastards!
Cory Booker grew up rich in an all-white suburb. He's basically a white guy. His parents were very wealthy executives at IBM.
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.