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Phillipsburg was the name of one those badly drawn fortresses resembling a fool with his nose too close to the wall.
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Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
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Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have.
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She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century and every one of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal pouring off of every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.
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Since 1985, I have written about contemporary Jewish practice and the Jewish community.
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Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.
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Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
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Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word ''satiety.''
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The 2008 Democratic presidential candidates would be wise to note that unwarranted negativism is dangerous and badly underestimates the strengths of the American people to adapt to and prosper with change.
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The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.
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The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
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The Bible was written by fallible human beings.
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The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.
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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
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The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.
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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
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