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Author: James A. Michener
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  1. James A. Michener _ Hawaii

    Only a mind steeped in true love can write irony. The others write satire.
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  2. James A. Michener _ Hawaii

    how small he was and how wormy in manner,
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  3. James A. Michener _ Hawaii

    I live for the few minutes I can talk with a sensible human being, but every time I do, I feel worse than before.
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  4. James A. Michener _ Iberia

    From the time that money began to be regarded with honor, the real value of things was forgotten.
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  5. James A. Michener _ Iberia

    Human affairs are not so happily arranged that the best things please the most men. It is the proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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  6. James A. Michener _ The Novel

    Tôi không yêu chiến tranh, nhưng tôi yêu lòng can đảm mà người bình thường dùng để đối mặt với chiến tranh.
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  7. James A. Michener _ Chesapeake

    CATHOLIC: Let me understand what you're saying, Mrs. Paxmore. You believe that on some day to come, the religious leaders of this world are going to convene and state that what the Bible has condoned since the days of Abraham, that what Jesus Himself approved of and against which He never spoke … You believe that our leaders are going to tell the world, "It is all wrong"? QUAKER: I expect to spend my life, Neighbor Steed, trying to convince my religion that slavery is wrong. CATHOLIC: Aha! Then even your religion doesn't condemn it? QUAKER: Not now. CATHOLIC
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  8. James A. Michener _ The Source

    «Он самостоятельно дошел до понимания, что инстинктивная ненависть к евреям совершенно бессмысленна, а в поддержку рациональной неприязни нельзя привести никаких доказательств.»
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  9. James A. Michener _ Return to Paradise

    There is only one sensible way to think of the Pacific Ocean today. It is the highway between Asia and America, and whether we with it or not, from now on there will be immense traffic along that highway.
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  10. James A. Michener _ Hawaii

    wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you.
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  11. James A. Michener _ Centennial

    Of all the men who were photographed that day, the chief's life had come closest to the American ideal, closest in observing the principles on which this nation had been founded. He was immeasurably greater than Chester Arthur, the hack politician from New York, incomparably finer than Robert Lincoln, a niggardly man of no stature who inherited from his father only his name, and a better warrior, considering his troops and ordnance, than Phil Sheridan. His only close competitor was Senator Vest, who shared with him a love of land and a joy in seeing it used constructively.
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  12. James A. Michener _ Alaska

    The movement of animals across the bridge was by no means always in one direction, for although it is true that the more spectacular beasts-mastodon, saber-tooth, rhinoceros-came out of Asia to enrich the new world, other animals like the camel originated in America and carried their wonderful capacities into Asia.
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