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• It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon monocultural commodity production, the clear-cutting of written and spoken English.

  Stephanie Mills

  Cutting, Past, Vocabulary

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.130, Island Press

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• When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing.

  Jimmy Carter

  Powerful, Law, Justice

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.113, Three Rivers Press

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• The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.

  Albert Pike

  Writing, Echoes, Leaving

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• My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Lying, Gun

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• It seems to me that when I see nature I see it ready-made, completely written - but then, try to do it!

  Claude Monet

  Trying, Made, Difficulty

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• I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday... I look back on my life as a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered.

  Grandma Moses

  Good Day, Yesterday, Done

  Moses, Grandma (1952). “Grandma Moses: My Life's History”, New York] : Harper

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• All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word.

  Adolf Hitler

  Events, Revolutionary, Spoken Word

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• It is often we come the closest to the essence of an artist... in his or her pocket notebooks and travel sketchbooks... where written comments and personal notes provide an intimate insight into the magical mind of a working artist.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Notebook, Artist, Essence

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• The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Majority, Fiction, Commerce

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• I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and paint it out again. I hope this mania will come to an end... I'm like a child at school. The white page must always be evenly written and slap! bang! and there's a blot! I'm still blotting and I'm forty years old.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Children, School, Frustration

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• Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

  Norman Tebbit

  Views, Paper, November

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• A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Lying, Book, Years

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• A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall.

  Lee Haney

  Merit, Problem, Has Beens

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• Sometimes everything has to be inscribed across the heavens so you can find the one line already written inside you.

  David Whyte

  Heaven, Lines, One Line

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• "God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten
  But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.

  Macklemore

  Children, Book, Years

  "Song: 'Same Love'". 2012.

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• Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.

  Arthur Laurents

  Play, Bells, Closing

  Arthur Laurents (2005). “Selected Plays of Arthur Laurents”, Backstage Books

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• I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic.

  Brian Crozier

  Book, Intelligent, Ordinary

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• If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

  Joseph Haydn

  Music, Want, Ifs

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• The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization and the need for redoubling our efforts in this organization to try to assure that democracy as represented by the United States must depend upon a total freedom of religion, which is written into our Constitution, of course, and the mere suggestion that anyone could maintain that one's patriotism, one's devotion to one's country can be judged by one's religion is so vile, so vile that we have to take to the streets indeed and to put it aside.

  Walter Cronkite

  God, Country, Organization

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• A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Civilization, Water, Environmental

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.1131, Best Books on

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• [Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Philosophy, Book, Science

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Bully!”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest and relaxation there is not a day, hour or minute that we should spend in idleness, but every minute of every day of our lives we should strive to improve our minds and to increase the faith of the holy Gospel, in charity, patience, and good works, that we may grow in the knowledge of the truth as it is spoken and prophesied of and written about.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Mind, Relaxation

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• The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics.

  Galileo Galilei

  Book, Math, Language

  "How the Mind Works". Book by Steven Pinker (p. 359), 1997.

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• Nature's great book is written in mathematics.

  Galileo Galilei

  Book, Math, Science

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• I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

  Charles Fort

  Believe, I Believe, My Own

  Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.15, Lulu.com

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