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As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.


Miguel Serrano


#books #death

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.


Walt Whitman


#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.


Walter Jon Williams


#away #awful #direction #door #editors

I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.


Walter Jon Williams


#authors #been #certain #corners #explored

I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.


Walter Jon Williams


#i #i can #long #remember #wanted

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


#consumer #every #given #himself #individual

In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to shareholders as well as to the Chinese authorities. They need to make money, they have to be efficient.


Daniel Yergin


#chinese #companies #couple #efficient #industry

We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.


Alberto Gonzales


#confirmed #day #end #end of the day #fair

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.


Matt Gonzalez


#authority #bent #get #i #i think

I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.


Bob Graham


#against #apply #authority #colleagues #could