"The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption."

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Source : Alan Dean Foster (2011). “Splinter of the Mind's Eye: Star Wars Legends”, p.90, Del Rey

Alan Dean Foster

#People Quotes #Assumption Quotes #Dead People Quotes

“I always try to enjoy the game. It is easy to say but it's true. Every game is different, sometimes you feel better inside you but you have to enjoy your game.”
“My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.”

Source : Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.10, Black Classic Press
“Movement is my medium and my metaphor. I know that if a wave of energy is allowed to complete itself, it yields a whole new wave, and in fact that is all I really know. Riding these waves means joining the cosmic dance that, as Dante says, 'moves the sun and the other stars.'”
“Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.”
“If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.”
“I would say that it is important to have it in your mind, what your attention is and what you want to do. Really just go for it, and fall and go for it again, and learn and continue to go for it. First, it starts as an abstract idea and you have this dream and desire. It will take you to one place, and in that time you act in a certain way and you do what you have to do in that one place to get you to the next place. It is constantly building into this idea that you have.”

Source : Source: mousertime.blogspot.com
“I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.”
“Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.”

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