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For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words. ↗

— Ken Follett

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I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process. ↗

— Shelby Foote

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I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale. ↗

— Harrison Ford

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The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will. ↗

— James Thomson

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Like having your own licence to print money. ↗

— Roy Thomson

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In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement. ↗

— Fritz Todt

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However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

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I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things. ↗

— Simon Travaglia

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