"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."
Ernest Hemmingway
"Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?"
Chang-rae Lee
"I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience."
Mark Twain
"Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow."
Nicholas Trandahl
"But...That doesn't make any sense...!''It does if you're a goat."
Linda Medley
"The lack of culpability of the perpetrator and his or her transference of blame onto alcohol or other substances only perpetuates the violent behaviors."
Asa Don Brown
"When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness."
Ausonius
"Don’t hate your enemies, they don’t even deserve it."
M.F. Moonzajer
"All natural laws retain the balance contained within the scope of that law, no man made law can do this. It is better to understand the natural laws that govern society then to create man made laws that will not work."
R. A. Delmonico
"But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?"
Charles Darwin
"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
Leo Tolstoy
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."
Peter F. Drucker
"In the absence of uplifting words, Silence is the best choice."
Joan Ambu
"The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain."
Buddha
"Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.'."
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