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L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

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E. L. MCDOWELL Existence is the greatest opportunity one can have; so why settle for a mediocre state of being?
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E. L. DOCTOROW I don't see any point in making a big fuss about it.  I just said, 'No, thank you.'
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E. L. NEVE I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
E. L. DOCTOROW Movies are too literal.
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E. L. DOCTOROW Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather ...
E. L. DOCTOROW Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
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E. L. DOCTOROW Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just sayi...
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E. L. DOCTOROW I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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E. L. DOCTOROW When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
E. L. DOCTOROW To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
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ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
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E. DONNALL THOMAS, JR. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe a...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. It is often easier to fight for one's principles that to live up to them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take.
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ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I don't mind a little praise - as long as it's fulsome.
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ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. My definition of a free society is where it's safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will s...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy o...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and whe...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which americans submit to speeches.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Most exciting ideas are not important. Most important ideas are not exciting. Not every problem has ...
DANIEL E GEER JR. Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public ...
ADLAI E. STEVENSON JR. Bearing false witness is not just one of the Ten Commandments. The Bible has numerously repeated war...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a ...
WILLIAM E. CONWAY, JR. If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics...
WILLIAM E. CONWAY, JR. Beautiful! Beautiful! Magnificent desolation.
EDWIN E. ALDRIN JR. Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on studen...
E. D. HIRSCH JR. It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people are rarely the ones who are the smartest or most...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Love is the agreement between the mind and the heart
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. Don't get something that will satisfy you for a moment, Do something that will make you happy for a ...
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. You cannot have quality if you do not have equality.
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. At times, some are able to make up for what they lack in skill or ability by a sincere and genuine d...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Some people are sadly oblivious to the fact that knowing how to say something negative or sarcastic ...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Some never recognize or will even acknowledge their own personal lack of education or intelligence, ...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Success starts with the right mindset, not with the right situation.
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. Like racist white-supremacists and sexist bigots, there are hetero-supremacists that are heterosexis...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Resorting to slander and ridicule as the basis of reasoning for an argument - admits and confesses t...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Ridicule first, then shame and condescension are the weapons and ammunition - in the mental manipula...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. It is a common tragic irony that the loudest people with the least education or variety of life expe...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR. Knowledge cannot be measured; it can be seen with hardwork
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. Some people are sadly oblivious to the fact that knowing how to say something negative or sarcastic ...
MIKE E. KNEZEVICH, JR.