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Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.


Octavia Butler


#had #i #novels #them #wanted

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.


Bo Bennett


#necessary #nothing #pursuit #rejection #step

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.


Lisa See


#novelists #reading #storytellers #storytelling #writers

Well first of all, tell me: Is there some society you know that doesn’t run on greed? You think Russia doesn’t run on greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed? What is greed? Of course, none of us are greedy, it’s only the other fellow who’s greedy. The world runs on individuals pursuing their separate interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way. In the only cases in which the masses have escaped from the kind of grinding poverty you’re talking about, the only cases in recorded history, are where they have had capitalism and largely free trade. If you want to know where the masses are worse off, worst off, it’s exactly in the kinds of societies that depart from that. So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear, that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by the free-enterprise system.


Milton Friedman


#economics #greed #civilization

Nice try,' he murmured, his lips brushing mine as he spoke. I nibbled his lower lip. 'If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too.' 'I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.


Becca Fitzpatrick


#nora-grey #patch-cipriano #temptation

يظن الغمر أن الكتب تهدى ... ... أخاً فهم لإدراك العلوم وما يدرى الجهول بأن فيها ... ... غوامض حيرت عقل الفهيم إذا رمت العلوم بغير شيخ ... ... ضللت عن الصراط المستقيم وتلتبس الأمور عليك حتى ... ... تصير أضل من 'توما الحكيم


أبو حيان التوحيدي


#islam #knowledge #scholar #teacher #islam

Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it.


Becca Fitzpatrick


#patch #sleep

I think scientists have a valid point when they bemoan the fact that it's socially acceptable in our culture to be utterly ignorant of math, whereas it is a shameful thing to be illiterate.


Jennifer Ouellette


#math #societal-norms #math

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.


Samuel Butler


#culture #cultured #enough #first #hand

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.


Kofi Annan


#intolerance #prejudice #racism #tolerance #defeat






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