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In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.


James A. Froude

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JAMES A. MICHENER The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life com...
JAMES A. MICHENER It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
JAMES A. MICHENER I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
JAMES A. MICHENER Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel li...
JAMES A. MOORE If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a s...
JAMES A. MICHENER a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible chang...
JAMES A. MICHENER Painful experiences are like scars in our minds. Some have healed and been forgotten. Others are the...
JAMES A. MURPHY I am the product of the American education system. It is a system that has always been on the lookou...
JAMES A. MICHENER I am a poor hater.
JAMES A. GARFIELD I have only one bit of advice to the beginning writer: Be sure your novel is read by Rodgers and Ham...
JAMES A. MICHENER The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
JAMES A. GARFIELD The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
JAMES A. MICHENER I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. W...
JAMES A. MICHENER The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limit...
JAMES A. MICHENER A man needs selfacceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs selfcriticism or others can't li...
JAMES A. PIKE These divestitures ensure that consumers of milk, an American staple, continue to get the benefits o...
CHARLES A. JAMES Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce....
JAMES A. GARFIELD He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation
JAMES A. GARFIELD Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is...
JAMES A. GARFIELD The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
JAMES A. GARFIELD A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil
JAMES A. GARFIELD