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So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#fend #flatter #generally #just #off

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#beautiful thing #down #editor #get #hand

Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#feature #get #going #into #longer

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#country #everlasting #every #exhausted #force

We should never suffer Cuba to pass from the hands of Spain to any other European power. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#cuba #european #hands #never #other

Whatever may be said as to our relations to some other countries, I think the relations of this country to Spain offer no ties of gratitude or of blood. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#countries #country #gratitude #i #i think

The amount of sophistication varies according to the quality of the medium, and to the state of the same medium at different times; it must be attributed in the best cases physiologically to the medium, intellectually to the control. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#amount #attributed #best #cases #control

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#anxious #communicate #difficulty #facts #fits

The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student to get that enjoyment out of classical literature that made the lives of our grandfathers so rich. ↗

— James Loeb

#ancient #attention #classical #could #day

I didn't realize what an impact having a No. 1 single would have. It connects me with people of different ages, and I get to travel all over the world. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#connects #different #different ages #get #having