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• A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.

  Mathias Dopfner

  Phones, Stories, Tablets

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• Every time I work on a project, I keep every little piece of paper.

  Micah Lexier

  Pieces, Littles, Projects

  "A Believer Excerpt From Sheila Heti’s Interview With Artist Micah Lexier". Interview with Sheila Heti, www.mcsweeneys.net. October 11, 2013.

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• Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Prayer, Moving

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• The idea of creating a national bank I do not concur in, because it seems now decided that Congress has not that power (although I sincerely wish they had it exclusively), and because I think there is already a vast redundancy rather than a scarcity of paper medium.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, Ideas, Creating

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• Writing in a journal is just a stall, a waiting game, a way to tell yourself that you're working when you're not, that you're doing something of value when you're just using up paper, that you're a writer when in fact you're just going through the motions of one. Look at me! I have blank paper in front of me-and now I'm filling it, with words!

  Robert Masello

  Writing, Games, Waiting

  Robert Masello (2005). “Robert's Rules of Writing”, p.12, Writer's Digest Books

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• Werewolf is a simple game for a large group of people (seven or more.) It requires no equipment besides some bits of paper; you can play it just sitting in a circle. I’d call it a party game, except that it’s a game of accusations, lying, bluffing, second-guessing, assassination, and mob hysteria.

  Andrew Plotkin

  Lying, Party, Simple

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• Sometimes I'll work through the crossword sections of three separate papers.

  Samantha Bond

  Three, Sometimes, Crosswords

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• The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Men, Hands, Jail

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• There is joy in feeling the bristles of a quality brush, seeing the richness and lush color of truly good pigment flowing onto the paper or canvas. The cheap stuff just makes for harder work and lesser results.

  Gene Black

  Color, Joy, Feelings

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• When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.

  Adrian Tomine

  Struggle, Artist, Thinking

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• I don't believe in marriage. I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. There's no paper that will make you stay.

  Diane Kruger

  Believe, Heart, Commitment

  "Meet Diane Kruger, Our Style Icon". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2011.

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• My mother lives in Moscow, and I would like to visit her. Now she always has to travel to Finland or a Baltic country to meet me. But I have to expect that my papers would be confiscated in Moscow immediately, and that they would harass my family. I can still have more impact in the West with my books and lectures.

  Garry Kasparov

  Mother, Country, Book

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• In short, it may be said that on paper the obligations to settle international disputes peacefully are now so comprehensive and far-reaching that it is almost impossible for a state to resort to war without violating one or more solemn treaty obligations.

  Arthur Henderson

  War, May, Impossible

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• If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to.

  Anna Nalick

  Threatening, Ifs

  Song: Breathe, Album: Shine, 2008

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• It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

  Joseph Stalin

  Jobs, Real, Home

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• Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Night, Joy

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Great Contemporaries”

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• The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

  Dave Barry

  Government, Here I Am, Constitution

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• I'm not the sort of person who does my mathematics writing on paper. I do that at the last stage of the game. I do my mathematics in my head. I sit down for a hard day's work and I write nothing all day. I just think. And I walk up and down because that helps keep me awake, it keeps the blood circulating, and I think and think.

  Michael Atiyah

  Writing, Thinking, Blood

  "'I'm a bit of a jack of all trades'". Interview with James Meek, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2004.

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• How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Long, Hatred

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “Zen in the Art of Writing”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• Evaluation and coaching get tangled together. When this occurs, the noise of evaluation drowns out coaching efforts. Think of this like a term paper. When you get your assignment grade back (evaluation) you tend to tune out the professor notes in the margins (coaching) if the grade is higher or lower than expected.

  Sheila Heen

  Thinking, Term Paper, Tangled

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• Imperialism is a paper tiger.

  Mao Zedong

  Imperialism, Tigers

  Zedong Mao, Michael Y. M. Kau, John K. Leung (1992). “The Writings of Mao Zedong, 1949-1976: January 1956-December 1957”, p.88, M.E. Sharpe

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• Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.

  Terry Pratchett

  Blood, Somewhere Else, Finding Yourself

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.134, Random House

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• Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

  Ilka Chase

  Photography, People, Thank God

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.

  Maurice Sendak

  Brother, Character, Kids

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

  Denis Diderot

  Women, Butterfly, Dust

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