“ There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity — the law of nature and of nations. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. ”
- Wilson Mizner- Copy
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“ The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly; in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly. ”
- Daniel Webster- Copy
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“ Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. ”
- Scott Adams- Copy
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“ I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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“ The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. - Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke. ”
- Rainer Maria Rilke- Copy
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“ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ There is a popular misconception that film-makers have to look to Hollywood to be commercially successful but this is how we have been conditioned. ”
- Mike Leigh- Copy
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“ Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. ”
- James J. Corbett- Copy
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“ The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
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“ Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors. ”
- Ken Hill- Copy
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“ I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe. ”
- Daniel Dennett- Copy
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“ God is the author, men are only the players. These grand pieces which are played upon earth have been composed in heaven. ”
- Honore de Balzac- Copy
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“ How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator? ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people. ”
- Prince William- Copy
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“ We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. ”
- Charles Churchill- Copy
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