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Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#book #business #good #hard #kind

So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#best #best way #conflict #dealing #first

And you can tell the writers who do it - Robert Stone, for example, who with each new novel is doing something new. I appreciate that in other writers. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#doing #each #example #for example #i

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#expression #fragmented #lend #live #lives

I can't predict the future. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#i #predict

Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#creating #doing #entrepreneurs #every #growth

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#go #i #into #leave #led

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#into #light #previously #shedding #slowed

The American people are pretty impressive in their ability to keep after something if they think it is doable. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#after #american #american people #impressive #keep

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#defeat #different #even #force #liberate