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Louis L Amour Inspirational Quotes (122)

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Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.
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Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.
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After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?
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It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is a symbolical lightening of the load they carry, perhaps a small offering to the gods of the trails.
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I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.
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Mountains should not be judged by altitude.
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One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.
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Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.
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There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
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Politics is the art of making civilization work.
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There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.
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Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.
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Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
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A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.
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Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.
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You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
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To disbelieve is easy to scoff is simple to have faith is harder.
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... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.
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Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.
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I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.
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Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.
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There is no man more dangerous than one who does not doubt his own rightness.
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The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?
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What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.
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