"As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues."

-- Eric Jerome Dickey

#Character Quotes #Issues Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Do I think I'm a holy man? Sometimes.”

Source : "My Life With The Spirits: The Adventures of a Modern Magician". Book by Lon Milo DuQuette, 1999.
“Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. [Lat., Auream quisquis mediocritatem deligit tutus caret obsoleti sordibus tecti, caret invidenda sobrius aula.]”
“It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers.”
“Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.”
“We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.”
“Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.”
“If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be. These supposed mysteries have rendered the calculus of the infinitely small quite suspect to many people. Those doubts that remain we shall thoroughly remove in the following pages, where we shall explain this calculus.”
“Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.”

Source : Thomas Hood (1847). “Poems”, p.204

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