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Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#alligators #connection #deal #distant #fantasy

He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#opposes #recognize #reluctant #who

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#circumstances #constantly #difficult #difficult people #making

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding. ↗

— Alton Brown

#anything #go #i #lot #spend

I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#am #come #first #get #good

What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest. ↗

— Earl Browder

#been #calamity #cold #cold war #consideration

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#aware #be prepared #deeply #dimension #factor

My first book is really about heat. That book, for me, was an exploration of heat as ingredient. Why we don't talk about heat as an ingredient, I don't quite understand, because it is the common ingredient to all cooking processes. ↗

— Alton Brown

#because #book #common #cooking #exploration

I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#american #american public #explain #here #i

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities. ↗

— Corrine Brown

#communities #creates #development #economic #economic development