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After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It

was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
Iris Chang

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
Jane Austen

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Evan Esar

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
John F. Kennedy

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
Jim Rohn

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
Francis Thompson

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