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• I went to law school which is a 3-year program in the US that is focused primarily on memorizing certain doctrines and taking exams that test whether you can apply those doctrines to help prepare for the bar exam. If you are lucky, you get a few classes where you are encouraged to think more critically and read critical texts rather than just casebooks, and perhaps write a paper that is not a legal memo or brief.

  Dean Spade

  Writing, School, Thinking

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• President Bush insisted that there was nothing in the August 6th, 2001 briefing, which was titled 'Bin Laden determined to attack the United States', that hinted what bin Laden was up to. Bush says that he would have moved mountains to stop the attack. Yeah, but he draws the line at reading a memo.

  David Letterman

  Reading, August, President

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• I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.

  Alan Cohen

  Spiritual, Night, Thinking

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• CIA Director George Tenet has now testified before the 9/11 commission and he said we are still making the same dumb mistakes, like leaving memos on the President's desk.

  David Letterman

  Mistake, Leaving, Dumb

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• I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but not everybody got this memo, I guess.

  Lorrie Moore

  Thinking, Stories, Environment

  "'I would like to live in that year forever.'". Interview with Michael Hafford, logger.believermag.com. April 24, 2014.

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• Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. 100 years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.

  James Altucher

  Kissing, Dust, Hands

  "10 Reasons Why You Have To Quit Your Job This Year" by James Altucher, www.businessinsider.com. May 10, 2013.

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• Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

  Walter Kirn

  Hate, Love You, Enemy

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• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  Felix Dennis

  Errors, People, Email

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• By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo.

  Howard Rheingold

  Jobs, Writing, Simple

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• Charonte are guarding a Dimme? Is the world coming to an end and I missed the memo? (Stryker)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  World, Guarding, Ends

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.304, Macmillan

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• Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: "Learn, guys..."

  Neil Gaiman

  Agreement, Yellow, Guy

  "Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch". Book by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, May 1, 1990.

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• We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior. It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal.

  Gary Paulsen

  Running, Animal, Unique

  Gary Paulsen (2003). “Brian's Hunt”, p.65, Wendy Lamb Books

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• Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabrications, but instead he was depressed by it. The memos telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him; all they proved was that no one was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.

  Margaret Atwood

  Jobs, Clever, Should Have

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• I—I adore you, too. Well, I don't know if I adore you. That's not really the word I'd use. But I—I—" I managed to wrench it out. God, this was hard! "I love you." "Of course you do," he said, totally unsurprised. "WHAT? I finally tell you my deepest, most personal feelings and you're all, 'Yeah, I already got that memo'? This, this is why you drive me nuts! This is why it's so hard to tell you things! I take it back.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Love You, Nuts, Feelings

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• As his other hand began to slip around her waist, his body brushed against hers, and there was no mistaking the thick, hard ridge grazing her jean-clad bottom. Heavens, did that thing never subside? The rest of him might be mortal, but his immortal erection certainly didn't scan to have gotten the memo.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hands, Heaven, Body

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1338, Dell

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• Bout time," she huffed, but her voice sounded thick and emotional too."I was at the hospital all day yesterday, but they wouldn't let me see you. I bolted past security but they called code ninetynine and chased me down, they escorted me out in handcuffs. The way I see it, the only criminal here is your mom. No visitors? I'm your best friend, or did she not get the memo every year for the past eleven? Next time I'm over, I'm going to lay into that woman." ~Vee

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mom, Past, Emotional

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• In his world, people never questioned him. And it was a good place to be, his world. Apparently she hadn't gotten the memo.

  Jill Shalvis

  People, World, Good Place

  Jill Shalvis, Elle Kennedy (2015). “Time Out & Body Check”, p.38, Harlequin

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• CBS is planning a tribute to Dan Rather... the memo went out a month ago but everyone assumed it was a fake.

  Ann Coulter

  Fake, Months, Planning

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• Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man and the Sea. The best writers stamp prose with their own distinctive personality; their timbre and tone are as recognizable as their voices on the phone. To cultivate voice, you must listen for the music of language-the vernacular, the syntactic tics, the cadences.

  Constance Hale

  Writing, Men, Sea

  Constance Hale (2001). “Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose”, Broadway

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• As the inevitable discussion proceeds in the months ahead, this memo should provide both perspective and a reality check. President Bush's approval numbers will again fall back to more realistic levels fairly quickly. All were quite successful on Election Day.

  Matthew Dowd

  Fall, Successful, Reality

  "GOP memo predicts drop in Bush poll numbers" By Sean Loughlin, www.cnn.com. April 24, 2003.

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• The key to leadership is having a vision, and being strong enough to say no and not try to please everybody. Thats a recipe for failure. Leadership is practiced through attitude and actions, rather than words and memos.

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Strong, Attitude, Keys

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• Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important as meaning. In fact, music can drive home the meaning of words.

  Constance Hale

  Home, Adventure, News Stories

  "Writing for the ear" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. June 13, 2012.

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• There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his story, because most people aren't going to read a thousand-page book. But I feel like the rise and fall and the work [Mayer] produced - not just the movies, but the memos, the volume of writing - he's just so passionate, and that's really exciting.

  Karina Longworth

  Book, Fall, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We don't have a caucus, because we differ on so many views. Some of us are pro-choice, some are not. We'll take the issue of drilling, for example: Lisa Murkowski would want to drill in ANWAR, Maria Cantwell, Barbara Boxer, and most of us would say no, and so we don't. But we get together once a month for dinner, and we have three rules: no memos, no staff, and no leaks; and we get together for friendship. In fact, we're having a dinner tonight. We just have drinks and talk about life and times.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Views, Issues, Choices

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.

  Ryan Tedder

  Block, Voice, Iphone

  "OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder on Hitmaking, Writer's Block and the Song That Got Away (Q&A)" by Michele Amabile Angermiller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 06, 2013.

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