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The only thing that never changes is that everything changes. (Louis L'Amour)
Out here you better have a gun, and a gun in the wagon ain't good for nothin'. View quote
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There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness. View quote
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Fortunately, there seem to be few of his kind, and my subsequent friendships with university professors have proved exciting, stimulating and fun. View quote
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Had I been a Christian, I would undoubtedly have been considered a heretic, for what the world has always needed is more heretics and less authority. There can be no order or progress without discipline, but authority can be quite different. View quote
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Somewhere along the line I had fallen in love with learning, and it became a lifelong romance. View quote
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Characters have a way of taking on a life on their own, expressing themselves in the simple philosophy of their times, and expressing beliefs acquired through living, working, and being. View quote
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Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. View quote
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Each generation has a group that wishes to impose a static pattern on events, a static pattern that would hold society forever immobile in a position favorable to the group in question. View quote
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We are all of us, it has been said, the children of immigrants and foreigners - even the American Indian, although he arrived here a little earlier. View quote
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Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. (Louis L'Amour)
Each people has its gods, or the spirits in which they believe. It may be their god is the same as ours, only clothed in different stories, different ideas, but a god can only be strong, Hannes, if he is worshiped, and the gods of those ancient people are lonesome gods now. View quote
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He was almighty quick at a time when a man was either quick or he was dead. View quote
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I never fail to toss a stone on the pile, Hannes. In my own way it is a small offering to those lonesome gods. View quote
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To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you have been going somewhere, you will have been learning. View quote
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What kind of scholar was I? Or was I a scholar at all? My ignorance was enormous. Beside it my knowledge was nothing. My hunger for learning, not so much to improve my lot as to understand my world, had led me to study and to thought. Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. View quote
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This was the beginning of something, yet I had ventured back into a world from which I had come and found it an alien world of which I was no longer a part. In a sense I had always been alien. My Druidic training had taken me deep into a past that held more than the present, and along with it had been my father's accounts, returning home after voyages, of a world beyond our shores. I had mingled with the men of his crews, almost half of which had come from other lands, other cultures, until I had become a stranger in my own land. View quote
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A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men. View quote
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Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance. He knows well the limits of his knowledge and how much is waiting to be learned. View quote
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I sat very still, as befitted a small boy among strangers, staring wide-eyed into a world I did not know. I was six years old and my father was dying. View quote
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Your pa had seven years at sea, mostly in foreign parts. You've heard him talk. He's got a way about him, a way with words. He can make the temple bells tinkle for you, and you can just hear them big old elephants shuff-shuffling along, the priests callin' folks to prayer and the like. Your pa learned a sight of things most folks never even hear of. I've seen scholars back off an' look at your pa, amazed. You take these Injuns, now. You look at the way they live and you'll say they don't amount to much, but what are they thinkin'? What do they know? What memories do they have? They want different things, boy, and they consider different things important. Many a thing we'd give anything to know, they just take for granted. Some of these Injuns, maybe all of them, they're in tune with something. I don't know what. But some of them have lost touch with it, and others are losin' touch. Goin' the white folks' way might seem the likely thing to do, but maybe they lose as much as they gain. (Louis L'Amour)
Many people know how to get money, but few know how to keep it. Wise investments are always based on information, Johannes, so the more you know, the better. View quote
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It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. View quote
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A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind. View quote
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The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever. View quote
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