To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

Louis LAmour
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  1. Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

  2. Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

  3. I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

  4. 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.

  5. It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.

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