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Quote by Salman Rushdie
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie

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A poets work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. – Salman Rushdie

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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up. – Salman Rushdie

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The world itself is the will to power – and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power – and nothing else! – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. – Swami Vivekananda

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Never underestimate the power of a simple tool. – Craig Bruce

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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. – Richard Bach

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Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards. – Eugene Scott

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