Steven Forester quote: "Nicaraguans. It's been given to Salvadorans. It's been given to Hondurans. It's been given to Liberians, Somalis, Sudanese and Burundi. Why aren't Haitians good enough for the same basic protections?"

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Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.
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This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"
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I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
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Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
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An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
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Demons run when a good man goes to war
Night will fall and drown the sun
When a good man g...
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Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the
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Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life.
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The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical...
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Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.
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We're all stories, in the end.
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Always speak politely to an enraged dragon.
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I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces.
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If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th...
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You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
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It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to...
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A cavalryman's horse should be smarter than he is. But the horse must never be alowed to know this.
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.
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Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things...
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One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it h...
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Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, yo...
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The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.
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Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should reme...
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I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches.
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I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.
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A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any ti...
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People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usua...
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My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you l...
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So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It'...
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Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with in...
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Violent movements attract thugs and firebrands who enjoy the mayhem. Violent tactics provide a prete...
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Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to c...
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20th-century totalitarian movements were no more defined by a rejection of Judeo-Christianity than t...
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Sometimes, I seem to be only able to actually move and get going with things on the razor edge of po...
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My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
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What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is,...
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For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfe...
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Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I’ve forgotten this b...
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Management, at every level, is about the effort to frame challenges, define end states, and allocate...
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Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could b...
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When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul All...
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The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of m...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

The amateur tweets. The pro works.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
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One kind of artist is always striving to annihilate the past, to make the world anew in each new wor...
STEVEN STUCKY

Anime has been good to me. I made and continue to make very little money at it, but the undying, fev...
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The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
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I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or...
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There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The ...
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I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the ...
STEVEN CHU

Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chai...
STEVEN JOHNSON

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they ...
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Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that ...
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If God dropped acid, would he see people?
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I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a res...
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I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop,...
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My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced ...
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I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of t...
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Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,...
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The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's...
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I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
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Nicaraguans. It's been given to Salvadorans. It's been given to Hondurans. It's been given to Liberians, Somalis, Sudanese and Burundi. Why aren't Haitians good enough for the same basic protections?

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Nicaraguans. It's been given to Salvadorans. It's been given to Hondurans. It's been given to Liberians, Somalis, Sudanese and Burundi. Why aren't Haitians good enough for the same basic protections?

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