"The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called 'spannungsbogen' -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing."
Frank Herbert
"Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing."
Hank Green
"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
Niccolò Machiavelli
"So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting I was strong."
Vita Sackville-West
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
James D. Nicoll
"I don't want to make people mad. I just... Well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?"
Brandon Sanderson
"Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works."
John Keats
"There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote."
Joseph P. Kennedy III
"We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves."
Malcolm Gladwell
"Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends."
Ron Chernow
"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."
Frank Herbert
"Three essential virtues are patient, loyalty and kindness."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"There's something satisfying to proclaiming humility while knowing just how important you truly are."
Michael R. Fletcher
"Stories come alive in the telling. (…)They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them, they could begin to change. They could take root in the imagination and transform the reader. Stories wanted to be read."
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