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John Updike

John Updike (1932-2009) was an American writer and poet. He is known for his Run, Rabbit series of novels and for numerous works of literary criticism.

Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.

On Writing, By Writers (West)

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.

John Adams

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him not eat.

Paul the Apostle

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Unknown

We can’t always tell the difference between the people who are far smarter than us and the people who are dumber. Both groups make choices we can’t understand.

Scott Adams

You don’t have real diversity when you have a group of people who look different and think alike.

Peter Thiel

There is more than one way to burn a book, and the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury

Telling a woman that abortion is the ’empowering’ response to a crisis pregnancy is really telling her that she is not strong enough to handle motherhood. What a terrible and unrealistic way to view women.

Abby Johnson

When one practices first and preaches afterwards, one is really teaching with power. Doctrine loses credibility, if conscience tethers the tongue.

Gregory the Great

I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.

Thomas Sowell

It is childlike thinking to insist in all cases that the people who cause problems are the only people who should solve them.

Scott Adams

If the Constitution, intelligently and reasonably construed, stands in the way of desirable legislation, the blame must rest upon that instrument, and not upon the court for enforcing it according to its terms. The remedy in that situation—and the only true remedy—is to amend the Constitution.

George Sutherland

Freedom can move in only one direction at a time. If a man [spends ten dollars] on a night of celebration he has thereby lost the freedom to spend that same ten dollars on some new clothes. Once the choice is made, a person is not free to avoid the consequences. . . .

W. Cleon Skousen

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

Will Rogers

Having lots of ideas doesn’t mean you’re clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you’re a good general.

Nicolas Chamfort

In almost every country in Europe . . . [there have been] instances of the people losing their liberty by their own carelessness and the ambition of a few.

Patrick Henry

Do not believe your brother, believe your own crooked eye.

Unknown

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.

Fred Allen

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