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The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about. Robert J. Sawyer

Good You Soul Heart Writing Research Out Find About Write Good Writing Know Heart And Soul Should

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy World Benefits Duty Anonymous Sow Being Being Happy Much

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition. Rod Serling

Man Science Light Space Dimension Shadow Superstition Vast Between Beyond Known Timeless Infinity Middle Middle Ground Which Fifth Ground

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling

Needs Man Woman Fool Clever Silliest Clever Man Very Manage

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person. Seth Godin

Fear Smart Mark Overcoming Person Being Successful Successful Person Your Aware

The way to work with a bully is to take the ball and go home. First time, every time. When there's no ball, there's no game. Bullies hate that. So they'll either behave so they can play with you or they'll go bully someone else. Seth Godin

The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted. Sherry Argov

Life Time Better Girl Giving Giving Up Own Control Nice Addition Winds Something Gives Disappointed Over She Return Up Expected Get Being Depleted Nice Girl Her Thinks

When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best. Sholom Aleichem

Best You Yourself Better Will Think Others Pen About Write Pick Know Know Yourself Up Die Who Things

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat. Simone de Beauvoir

You Victory Long Live Defeat Every Enough See Turns

All the idols made by man, however terrifying they may be, are in point of fact subordinate to him, and that is why he will always have it in his power to destroy them. Simone de Beauvoir

Man Will Made Power Destroy Fact Point He Him Terrifying Always Idols However His Subordinate May Them Why

I've been the luckiest man in the world because I've had friends, and to have the right friends is everything: people you can depend on, people who tell you the truth if you ask something. Stan Lee

Truth You Man People World Depend Everything Tell Something Had Because Been Friends Ask Who Luckiest Right

I always felt the 'X-Men,' in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality, and I believe that subject has come up in other titles, too. But we would never pound hard on the subject, which must be handled with care and intelligence. Stan Lee

Racism Intelligence Care Believe Too Other Way Must Would Touched Pound Never Come Felt Inequality Always Subject Up Handled Often Subtle Which Titles Hard

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. Thomas Paine

Every Kind Weapon Most Errors Against Formidable Reason

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests. Thomas Paine

Good Hundred More Priests Schoolmaster Than Use

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them. Thomas Paine

Man Science Every Universe Those System Only He Make Principles Governed Discover Fixed Cannot Which Them Basis

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. Thomas Paine

Possibilities Only Reason

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. Thomas Paine

Wisdom War Progress Unforeseen Increase Circumstances One Thing Calculate Involves End Train Human Taxes Certain Human Wisdom Thing

The key to nature's therapy is feeling like a tiny part of it, not a master over it. There's amazing pride in seeing a bee land on a flower you planted - but that's not your act of creation, it's your act of joining in. Victoria Coren Mitchell

European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experience changed the way people referred to the glamour of battle; they treated it no longer as a positive quality but as a dangerous illusion. Virginia Postrel

Positive War Quality Experience Battle People World Dangerous Vision Illusion Changed Trenches Way Only Glamorous Glamour Longer Shattered Referred Began Nations Psychologically Realities European European Nations Treated World War World War I

We are rarely proud when we are alone. Voltaire

Alone Rarely Proud

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason. Voltaire

Religion Power Lost Those Never Well Understood Truths Reason Who

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