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Necessity is a cold mistress, but Liberty inspires delightful bed-play.

I have no sword, Steward thought, and the thought was triumphant. From the state which is above and beyond, from thought I make my sword.

Since the Civil War...the most unruly, the most independent, the most republican of American citizens have been the small farmer.

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society…. A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

An author owes a duty to the truth.

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

He paused to write a five-thousand-word rebuttal.

Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.

Judging by the trace of accent in her voice, she had attended one of the Eastern colleges that teach women how to wear Harris tweed and talk with their teeth clenched.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

Petulance is not wit, although a few grains of wit may be found in petulance; quartz is not gold, although a few grains of gold may be found in quartz.

With Ted she was about to discover the God of Physical Love.

I think people get excited about their perspective on sexuality because it gives them the feeling that, their failures notwithstanding, if they take a hard stand on what they consider to be godly, maybe God will be more merciful to them.

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

bestselling and award-winning author Wanda E. Brunstetter is one of the founders of the Amish fiction genre. She has written close to 90 books translated in four languages. With over 10 million copies sold, Wanda's stories consistently earn spots on the nation's most prestigious

If any external thing causes you distress, it is not the thing itself that troubles you, but your own judgment about it. And this you have the power to eliminate now. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.47

Do you have a key to this chalet?" She let loose a long sigh. "No. But

dust. His head hit something. Everything went deathly still. CHAPTER FORTY-THREE The prisons of Egypt are notoriously famous.

bed, the Glock near his right hand, safety off.

And it's possible you may get different results depending on which hand you doodle with," Kounios says. "Using the left hand may stimulate the brain's right hemisphere.

This Why–What If–How progression—which can be identified in many stories of innovative breakthroughs—is

A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something—and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.