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I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter. ↗

— Steven Wright

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Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

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Pickups, S.U.V.'s, vans and the like represent about 80 million vehicles, with mileage of perhaps 13 to 16 miles per gallon. Converting those should be our first priority. ↗

— Andy Grove

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Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people. ↗

— Paul Guilfoyle

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Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

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Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life. ↗

— Alec Guinness

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When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

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