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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.


Plato


#first #himself #man #noblest #victories

I mean, I gotta say one of the greatest victories on that show was when we got picked up for the back nine of the first season, and they made it a full order.


Will Arnett


#first #full #got #gotta #greatest

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.


Shawn Ashmore


#because #different #door #general #genre

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.


Isaac Asimov


#core #critics #crucial #essence #ever

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.


Mary Astell


#design #due #excite #government #hearers

I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.


John Astin


#continue #demonstrates #difficult #difficult things #doing

I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years.


Rowan Atkinson


#around #car #drove #enjoy #f1

Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around.


Jean M. Auel


#around #back #books #fact #far

It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line.


Ibrahim Babangida


#course #destination #distance #historical #line

But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.


Russell Banks


#down #hand #hunt #i #other