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James Fenimore Cooper Quotes

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

James Fenimore Cooper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 15, 1789 - September 14, 1851

Topics

Mediocrity Things All Things Tendency

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Life Dinner You Life Changes Down

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

Life Tragedy Soon Ends

Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.

Myself Creative Me Listening Key

Love of place is one of the characteristics I enjoy most about novelists.

Love Enjoy Place Most About

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

Time I Am People Gold Care You

I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child soldiers in Northern Uganda who now are helping other former child soldiers return to civilian life.

John Prendergast

Life Women Courage Peace Child Go

I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.

World Think Winner Week You Flight

When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'

Time Song Think Laugh Someone Play

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

Good Business People Anything Books

The stitch of a book is its words.

Words Book Stitch

If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?

Joseph Stiglitz

Future Efficiency Clearly System Far

My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy.

Chelsea Clinton

Love Coffee Tea People Mom Think

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