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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

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Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#colonization #end #frequently #germany #historians

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#else #everybody #everybody else #felt #had

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#here #made #mean #point #same

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#cannot #intensely #lot #people #things

There are people who have tremendously important things to say, but they say it so poorly that nobody would ever want to read it. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#important #important things #nobody #people #poorly

There was so much that you could do, instead of looking for things that you couldn't do. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#instead #looking #much #things #you

When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing that, follow that finger back, go up the arm and look at the head that's behind it, because there's almost always something fairly woolly in there. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#always #arm #back #because #behind