A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Stephen Hawking

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

Hunter S. Thompson

What a fool does in the end, the wise do in the beginning.

Proverb

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

Mary Augusta Ward

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may becom

Albert Einstein

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

Raymond Berry

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

Russell Means

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

Madonna Ciccone

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.

Cyril Connolly

Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.

Kurt Vonnegut

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.

Abraham Lincoln

The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. Proverbs 12:6

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