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  • Bill Walsh Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.
    Bill Walsh
    American football coach (1931 - 2007)
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  • Brendan Francis Many of our fears are tissue-paper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.
    Brendan Francis
    Irish poet and writer (1923 - 1964)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • Franz Kafka May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Andrew Jackson Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Ernest Hemingway My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Ajay Naidu My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.
    Ajay Naidu
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Arthur Holly Compton My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.
    Arthur Holly Compton
    American physicist
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  • Robert Bresson My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • William Faulkner My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Cormac McCarthy My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Jim Rohn Never begin the day until it is finished on paper.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales No one sat me down with a piece of paper and said, “This is what is expected of you. But… I’m lucky enough in the fact that I have found my role… I love being with people.”
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  • Carol Ann Duffy Not a red rose or a satin heart.
    I give you an onion.
    It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
    It promises light
    like the careful undressing of love... I am trying to be truthful.
    Valentine, from Mean Time (1993)
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Henry Newman Nothing is so easy as to be religious on paper.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Lord George Byron O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ralph Nader Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.
    Ralph Nader
    American political activist, author and attorney (1934 - )
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  • Abraham Pais Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Will Rogers One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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