"Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose."

-- James O. Fraser

#Cutting Quotes #Knives Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.”
“Given the low level of competence among politicians, every American should become a libertarian. The government that governs least is certainly the best choice when fools, opportunists and grafters run it. When power is for sale, then the government power should be severely limited. When power is abused, then the less power the better.”
“I want to keep winning-the hell with the record”
“Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.”
“The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.”
“A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to make them real in a certain way, because otherwise people won't read them. It's fine if some readers think of them as real. It's just not the way that I think of them.”

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“Although people who had achieved a great deal in science and technology talked of the inscrutability of creativity, I was not convinced and disbelieved them immediately and without argument. Why should everything but creativity be open to scrutiny? What kind of process can this be which unlike all others is not subject to control?â€¦What can be more alluring than the discovery of the nature of talented thought and converting this thinking from occasional and fleeting flashes into a powerful and controllable fire of knowledge.”
“You will go most safely in the middle.”

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