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[For constructive conflict,] we have to resist the neurobiological drive which means that we really prefer people mostly like ourselves.
To the uneducated eye, as to the incurious mind, much of the world is in darkness, and a thousand songs are lost on the unlistening ear.
I'm a very promiscuous reader. My dad's a big science fiction fan, so I'd read 'Dune,' and 'Watership Down' and 'The Lord Of The Rings.'
A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.
Readers are increasingly reliant on digital sources for information - and they are increasingly reliant on these sources to be accurate.
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.
It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors.
Government health care changes the relationship between the citizen and the state, and, in fact, I think it's an assault on citizenship.
When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.
Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of rights, which no creature can gainsay.
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!
Men... look back on the children who were once themselves, and attempt to reconstruct them. But they can no longer think like the child.
The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.
In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.
It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.
Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence of dimness.
Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!
The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite!
Universe is blind; it cannot see us; we must find a way to show ourselves to it and science is the way to open the eyes of the universe!
Fate! This four letter little word gave the biggest harm to mankind! We must totally get rid of this degrading concept of primitiveness!
If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries!
Trains, cars and every kind of vehicles do not only carry people, but they also carry people's heavy thoughts and hidden hopelessnesses.
A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men!
Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive.
We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.
For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.
My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.
I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.
She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!" "Not hurt! You look into her eyes and tell me she ain't hurt!
I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the answer." It's not an op-ed.
I think that people are going to move. They always have and that's going to continue. The question is, how are we going to deal with it?
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
I would like to express my deep gratitude to the people of Bijepur Assembly constituency for having showered their blessings on the BJD.
People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.
One of the first things which a physician says to his patient is, ~Let me see your tongue.~ A spiritual advisor might often do the same.
If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.
and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it