Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
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I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make my reader acquainted with a species of Remains, which, though absolutely necessary for understanding the history of the globe, have been hitherto almost uniformly neglected. ~Georges Cuvier
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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You seek problems because you need their gifts. ~Richard Bach
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I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
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When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first. ~Tom Hiddleston
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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I have been as a pilot involved in the Gulf War. And then, in the no-fly zone. ~Philippe Perrin
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An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do. ~Anthony Trollope
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected. ~Tommy Shaw
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Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ~Erich Fromm
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I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end. ~Emily Mortimer
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A tree falls the way it leans. ~Bulgarian Proverb
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There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible. ~Moby
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels. ~Shelby Foote
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The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been okay in my book. ~Michael Scheuer
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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Sure it's a big job, but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. ~John F. Kennedy
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