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Louis L Amour Inspirational Quotes (121)

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I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
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A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime a good book can teach forever.
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If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
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Knowledge was meant to be shared.
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violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.
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No man is lost while he yet lives.
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For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many
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Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
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Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.
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A journey is time suspended.
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No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.
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At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.
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One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.
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Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.
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The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.
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I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.
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Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself.
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What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.
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Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.
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There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.
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The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.
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Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.
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The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
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A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.
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