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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. Abraham Lincoln
Time Freedom Destruction Spring Nation Live Suicide Approach Our Danger Ourselves Must All-Time Abroad Point Through Come Reach Answer Lot Up Author Expected Die Cannot Then Us Ever Amongst
If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research. Wilson Mizner
You Research Steal Author Plagiarism Many
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. John Locke
Truth God Bible Matter Pure Men Bestowed Blessings Without Greatest Mixture End Author Salvation Any Children
Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation. Ezra Taft Benson
Faith Christ First Repentance Our Easter Must Seek Put Sin Sincere Look Him Built Lord Lord Jesus Lord Jesus Christ Truly Author Salvation Which Meaningful Who Foundation Away Jesus Jesus Christ
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine
Death War Nation Hell He Contagion Vein Bleeds Opens Loose Author Who Whole Lets
The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself. Carter G. Woodson
Opportunity Every Unlimited Given Individual Consumer Takes Most Make Himself Author Tax Order Social Should Social Order Pays Position
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. Ross Perot
Good Great Man Writing Worth Good Man Action Living Worth Living Worthy Object Write Written Contemplation Read Greater Than Author Being Things Two
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists. Stephen Sondheim
Best Theatre Live Paper Something More Put Performers Makes Than Author Persists Role Different Why Bring
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name. Aldous Huxley
Somebody Else Name Author Same Either Iliad Homer
According to my parents, I was supposed to have been a nice, churchgoing Swiss housewife. Instead I ended up an opinionated psychiatrist, author and lecturer in the American Southwest, who communicates with spirits from a world that I believe is far more loving and glorious than our own. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
World Parents Glorious Own Nice Believe Our Spirits More Instead Supposed Housewife Opinionated Been Lecturer According Up Than Author American Southwest Ended Psychiatrist Loving Far Who Swiss
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. A. A. Milne
Business Money State Collect Almost Fame Author Being Anyone
If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever. Amy Purdy
Life You Book My Life Changed Would How Go Were Question Forever Author Want Story Your
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children. Benjamin Disraeli
Mother Own Books Bad About Almost Author Children Speaks Who Her
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice. Harold Pinter
Theatre Political Problems Own Disposition Air Characters Must Cost Entirely Objectivity Allowed His Author Taste Essential Confine Different Cannot Them Breathe Prejudice Avoided Satisfy Set Presents
As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream. Neil Gaiman
Never Daydream How Author Forgotten
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. Robert Benchley
Great Soul Spring Other Easily Must Great Literature Come Author Upheaval Handy Any Happens Literature Which Then Works Present Adapted
For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly wondering if what they are doing is the right thing, characters that are not only screwed up but are self-tapping screws. They're doing it for themselves. Terry Pratchett
You Nice Right Thing Characters Constantly Only Know Doing Up Author Wondering Want The Right Thing Screwed Screwed-Up Themselves Much Fun Right Thing
No sensible author wants anything but praise. A. A. Milne
Praise Author Anything Wants Sensible
An author entices the readers with their words, and it is painful for them to even lose a sentence. But films and books are two different mediums and should be dealt differently. What works in a book might not work for a film. When I saw 'Anna Karenina' on screen, I didn't like it at all, whereas 'The Godfather' was legendary. Ashwin Sanghi
Work Book Words Lose Films Mediums On-Screen Books Saw Anna Like Readers Dealt Godfather Author Legendary Screen Different Whereas Them Sentence Might Should Painful Works Even Film Differently Two
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author. Charles Caleb Colton
Great People Worth Three Publish Difficulties Find Write Read Author Get Being Sensible Publishing Honest Honest People
There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don't know any author who'd try. And we write characters, not representations of groups. David Levithan
Try Sense Characters Perfect No Sense Write Perfect Person Know Makes Author Person Any Groups Thing
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. Edward Gibbon
Best Judge Own Performance Sincerely Himself None His Subject Author Interested Event Deeply
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. Friedrich Nietzsche
Best Will Become Writer Author Ashamed Who
For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students. H. P. Lovecraft
Patience Writing Young Apprenticeship Correct Possible Reliable Must Hasty Mental More Throughout Students He Advanced Period Cultivation His Textbooks Privilege Author Dictionaries Accuracy Essential As Far As Which Elbow Far Manner Keep
It feels blessed to me. Because I go to comic cons, and people come up and they say, 'You're the reason I ride a motorcycle. You're the reason I became a mechanic.' And there are people who love 'Scream' and 'The Waterboy,' 'Royal Pains,' 'Parks & Rec,' 'Arrested Development.' And now 'Barry.' And then there are kids who only know me as an author. Henry Winkler
Love Motorcycle Me You People Ride Mechanic Blessed Say Kids Only Parks Development Feels Come Know Became Because Comic Arrested Arrested Development Go Up Author Scream Then Pains Reason Who Barry They Say Now Cons Royal
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. Jim Rohn
Truth People Humiliating Other Those Tell More Study Like Himself Without Than Author Any Fiction Form Literature Interesting Really Reason Who
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