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“Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate best-selling author - but I live and die for the work. That's thrilling to me. It's thrilling that I do for others what certain writers did for me when I was a kid.”

People Kids Certain Dies Winning Numbers Greater Sells Selling Thrilling Accolades

Author:James Ellroy

“The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea.”

Mind Ideas Together Certain Found Simple Numbers Reflection Senses Operations Exterior Simple Ideas

Author:John Locke

“After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.”

Matter Certain Numbers Mass Remains Crowds Cease Faceless All That Remains

Book:The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.”

Thinking Men Mind Certain Powerful Numbers Leader Knowing Mass Majority Scoundrels Submissive Powerful Leaders

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare.”

Want Helping Seems Certain Levels Numbers Comfort Degrees Creating Ideals Harmony Delusion Satisfying Unlimited Hindrance Snares

Book:All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“Prosperity and abundance in a society depend on a certain type of person: the producer. Societies with few producers stagnate and decay, while nations with a large number of producers vibrantly grow-in wealth, freedom, power, influence and the pursuit of happiness.”

Persons Certain Nations Grows Wealth Numbers Influence Type Depends Prosperity Pursuit Producers Abundance Decay Pursuit Of Happiness Large Numbers

Author:Oliver DeMille

“In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.”

People Wells Seems Age Certain Order Numbers Willing Materials Comfort Trade Granted Well Being Consumption Economist Rapture

Book:The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability

Source: The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability