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remember a feeling of excitement, of sudden inspiration, when I was visiting Giovanni Boccaccio's home in the walled village of Certaldo, outside of Florence. (Boccaccio was the medieval author of The Decameron.) It was as though I had met my muse! After this trip, I read The Decameron and began writing the Alchemy Series in earnest.
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To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed, they were tortured interpretations of a document [the Constitution] intended to prevent them.
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I shall become a master in this art only after a great deal of practice.
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Taiwan is a major economy.
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All our handling of the child will bear fruit, not only at the moment, but in the adult they are destined to become.
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I'd say the vast majority of my interview experiences have been pleasant, better than pleasant. But sometimes there will be people who will size you up. There can be that "rock star" thing where they think it's cool to pull back.
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An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
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No one ever lost his job by listening too much.
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Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.
