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Walter E Williams Inspirational Quotes (140)

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Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.
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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.
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I don't know about you, but if you hear that Williams guns have been taken, you'll know Williams is dead.
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The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with motives than with results.
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If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not going to wait for you to finish construction.
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An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
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The essence of government is force, and most often that force is used to accomplish evil ends.
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I learned that you have to evaluate the effects of public policy as opposed to intentions.
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Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty could not have done. It has contributed to the breakdown of the black family structure and has helped establish a set of values alien to traditional values of high moral standards, hard work and achievement.
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Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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The reason why the world's leftists give the world' s most horrible murderers a pass is because they sympathize with their socioeconomic goals, which include government ownership and/or control over the means of production. In the U.S., the call is for government control, through regulations, as opposed to ownership.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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It's people seeking more for themselves that has produced a better life for all Americans.
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Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you children are a result of a conscious decision. For the most part, female-headed households are the result of short-sighted, self-destructive behavior of one or two people.
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I've learned that I get blocked when my subconscious mind is telling me that I've taken the work in a wrong direction, and that once I start listening to what my subconscious is trying to tell me, I can work out the problem and get moving again.
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When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.
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Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.
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Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
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The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.
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The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?
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I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.
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Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?
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If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.
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