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- If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
- Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing, p. 147
- Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), 1966 speech
- What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.
- M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972), Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993)
- By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
- M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972), Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)
- A place for everything and everything in its place.
- Isabella Mary Beeton, The Book of Household Management, 1861
- The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
- There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, XXII
- In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), speech, November 19, 1999
- Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
- If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
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