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James A. Michener

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JAMES A. GARFIELD Suicide is not a remedy.
JAMES A. GARFIELD A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerc...
JAMES A. GARFIELD Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Ideas control the world.
JAMES A. GARFIELD This merger would give General Dynamics a permanent monopoly in nuclear submarines and would substan...
CHARLES A. JAMES Thoughts turn to other's just a little more this time of year. Days grow shorter and memories grow l...
JAMES A. MURPHY For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophic...
JAMES A. SHAPIRO I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choos...
JAMES A. OWEN Kids are naturally curious about the world around them. Everything is fascinating and holds their at...
JAMES A. MURPHY Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It hel...
JAMES A. MURPHY Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the ...
JAMES A. MURPHY THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED: RELIVING DISSOCIATED EXPERIENCES

The reexperiencing of previ...
JAMES A. CHU Good times are a reminder and a reward for dealing with the difficult and challenging times we all g...
JAMES A. MURPHY This merger would create a monopoly in those areas where cable television is not available, thereby ...
CHARLES A. JAMES If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your lif...
JAMES A. MURPHY Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, ...
JAMES A. BALDWIN To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be pr...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what...
JAMES A. KITCHENS The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no rem...
JAMES A. GARFIELD It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well....
JAMES A. OWEN Life is this simple ~ birth, eat, drink, play, explore, and relate to family and friends; be happy a...
JAMES A. MURPHY It has occurred to me that the thing you have, that all men have enough of, is perhaps the thing tha...
JAMES A. GARFIELD The difficulties in diagnosing DID result primarily from lack of education among clinicians about di...
JAMES A. CHU