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• Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name you want to give it. Like an alphabet, it is individual, you only learn it by making mistakes, and that keeps you from globalizing the spiritual quest.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Mistake, Names

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• When you are a child you learn your alphabet, your numbers, but increasingly, we must learn from the earliest stages that the highest priority has to be to maintain the world as a safe place for humankind.

  Sylvia Earle

  Children, Numbers, Priorities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off.

  Vanna White

  Soup, Pay, Alphabet Soup

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• Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a visual record of the person who created it - his skill as a designer, his philosophy as an artist, his feeling for... the details of each letter and the resulting impressions of an alphabet or a text line.

  Will Burtin

  Philosophy, Communication, Artist

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• As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular arrangement will produce a new and desired effect. ... Therefore, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts; in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world.

  Robert Fulton

  Nice, Science, Discovery

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• I'm going down 2 Alphabet Street I'm gonna crown the first girl that I meet I'm gonna talk so sexy She'll want me from my head 2 my feet.

  Prince

  Girl, Sexy, Feet

  Song: Alphabet Street

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• Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.

  Horace Mann

  Children, Fables, Said

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• Lick the alphabet. It makes you appear creative, it's an easy diagram to remember, it's like "aaaaa.... beeeee.... ceeee.

  Sam Kinison

  Creative, Remember, Easy

  "HBO Special", 1985.

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• If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill the equivalent of 500 Bibles.In the meantime human beings have discovered this for themselves. That's right. They have uncovered our profoundest concept -- namely, that life is ultimately reading. They themselves are the Book of Books.

  Harry Mulisch

  Book, Reading, Long

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• Writers are voracious readers. Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me. Everything was fair game, from Louisa May Alcott to my older cousin's True Romance Magazines, from Lewis Carroll to the backs of cereal boxes. All of this fed me, but it took certain books to make me grow. I don't want to work without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

  Gloria Naylor

  Cousin, Drama, Book

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• Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet.

  Meir Shalev

  Memories, Desire, Stories

  Meir Shalev (2011). “My Russian Grandmother and Her American Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir”, p.140, Schocken

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• Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Reading, Perception, Mind

  Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.133, Macmillan

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• Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

  Tennessee Williams

  Children, Block, Names

  Tennessee Williams (1991). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.375, New Directions Publishing

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• Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.

  George William Curtis

  Education, Intelligent, People

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• Yeah, it's not that I wanted to do a painting, I wanted to do writing like that. What jolted me about Jasper Johns was how important it is to start with a convention, how important it is to start with what everybody knows and everybody takes for granted, whether it's a number, an alphabet letter, a set of alphabet letters, a target.

  Vito Acconci

  Writing, Numbers, Important

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Talking, Letters, Patterns

  Interview with Mildred Kiconco Barya, www.pambazuka.org. June 18, 2009.

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• The going away of friends does not make the remainder more precious. It takes so much from them as there was a common link. A. B. and C. make a party. A. dies. B. not only loses A. but all A.'s part in C. C. loses A.'s part in B., and so the alphabet sickens by subtraction of interchangeables.

  Charles Lamb

  Friends, Party, Going Away

  Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his life. The poetical works”, p.196

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• Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?

  Mary Norris

  Cereal, Soup, Punctuation

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Most people have no idea how much goes into designing a typeface. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, usually with two versions of each, upper and lower case. Punctuation and alternate characters and numbers - let's not forget numbers - can add another 40 or so.

  Michael Bierut

  Character, Ideas, Two

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a house or a slipper? By the same token, why do we not believe that if innumerable letters of the Greek alphabet were poured all over the market-place they would eventually happen to form the text of the Iliad?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Believe, Science, House

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• In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Latin, Writing

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.

  George Carlin

  School, Half, Poor

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Book, School

  Thomas Carlyle (1852). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.255

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• Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Art, Writing, Criticism

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• I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was the keystone to knowledge. You learned the alphabet as you learned to count to ten, as you learned "Now I lay me" and the Lord's Prayer and your father's and mother's name and address and telephone number, all in case you were lost.

  Eudora Welty

  Mother, Prayer, Father

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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