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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.


N. K. Jemisin

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K All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.
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N. SCOTT MOMADAY I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservat...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood ...
N. SCOTT MOMADAY Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
N. ROBERT HAMMER Private equity funds a substantial amount of new businesses and is the source of capital to rejuvena...
N. ROBERT HAMMER We have innovative differentiated technology that is recognized by our customers and third party ana...
N. ROBERT HAMMER There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is...
N. ROBERT HAMMER One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
N. ROBERT HAMMER The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.
N. ROBERT HAMMER I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS Having companies like PotashCorp based in Saskatoon or Cameco based in Saskatoon that have worldwide...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circu...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
N. MURRAY EDWARDS It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the las...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can cre...
N. MURRAY EDWARDS IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern ...
A. N. WILSON Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinc...
A. N. WILSON If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at...
A. N. WILSON Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
A. N. WILSON It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead,...
A. N. WILSON If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth ...
A. N. WILSON