“ Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly. ”
- Alan Dean Foster- Copy
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“ Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least. ”
- John Morley- Copy
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“ Whoever is careless with the truth in small maters cannot be trusted with the important matters. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring. ”
- Hilaire Belloc- Copy
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“ So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects. ”
- John Jay Chapman- Copy
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“ The emotions are not always subject to reason… but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ Words and sentences are subject to revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision. ”
- Barrett Wendell- Copy
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“ I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important. ”
- Robert Wise- Copy
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“ Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing. ”
- Robert Kiyosaki- Copy
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“ Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself. ”
- Andre Kertesz- Copy
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“ The name of the subject is not fundamentally important. All subjects may be made the means of developing a man. What we call culture is not the result of a line of study, so much as the result of association with educated and sensitive persons. A well educated mind has a broad outlook… ”
- Liberty Hyde Bailey- Copy
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“ Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. ”
- William Wirt- Copy
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“ Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'. ”
- Dan Parker- Copy
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“ The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds. ”
- Tryon Edwards- Copy
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“ Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own. ”
- Sir Richard Francis Burton- Copy
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“ It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ”
- Will Durant- Copy
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“ The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. ”
- Thomas Aquinas- Copy
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“ The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ”
- G.K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. ”
- Laurence J. Peter- Copy
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“ As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject. ”
- Elija Lovejoy- Copy
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