"... A nation has to take its natural course Of Progress round and round in circles From King to Mob to King to Mob to King Until the eddy of it eddies out."
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"The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state."
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"For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation."
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"As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend."
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"Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings."
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"Most impediments to scientific understanding are conceptual locks, not factual lacks. Most difficult to dislodge are those biases that escape our scrutiny because they seem so obviously, even ineluctably, just. We know ourselves best and tend to view other creatures as mirrors of our own constitution and social arrangements. ( Aristotle , and nearly two millennia of successors, designated the large bee that leads the swarm as a king."
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"Writing is seduction."
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"But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe."
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"The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money."
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"You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down."
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"Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write."
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"The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians."
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"I think Steve King is absolutely wrong and I just hope that we can try to reach higher ground, because when you are spewing this kind of nonsense, things that Donald Trump says, Ben Carson says, but also [Marco] Rubio and [Ted] Cruz and even Jeb Bush have said."
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"We wouldn't be as far along as a country if we didn't take on some of Martin Luther King's ways that he instilled in us."
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"People look at me like I should have been like Malcolm X or Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks. I should have seen life like that and stay out of trouble, and don't do this and don't do that. But it's hard to live up to some people's expectations."
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"In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings."
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""Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times."
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"... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be."
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"Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives - but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can ensure that I will catch it."
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"I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him."
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