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In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. ↗

— Mark Twain

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The voice is an instrument that you really must take time to develop. It's like a good red wine Give it time. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

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Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed? ↗

— Robert A. Cook

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Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

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I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past. ↗

— Clara Barton

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I made my money by selling too soon. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate. ↗

— John Barton

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I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance. ↗

— John Barton

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I have become intrigued with the combining of seemingly unrelated ideas or images, or the drawing upon the many, sometimes dissimilar, meanings a word might have. ↗

— John Barton

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If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. ↗

— John Barton

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