#tan

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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I listen to music constantly while writing. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#i #listen #music #while #writing

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#among #democrat #domination #endangered #government

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #experience #explanations #hope #important

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it. ↗

— Eric Zorn

#common #idioms #notwithstanding #only #save

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge. ↗

— John Zorn

#keeping #matter #people #spontaneous

I understand people want to hold on to their roots. ↗

— Mariah Carey

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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#believing #christ #earthly #enjoyments #farewell

The Clinton era is over. I think that there would even have been a certain amount of rejoicing among some Republicans if Gore had won or if Ralph Nader had won or if Satan had won. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#amount #been #certain #clinton #era

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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