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I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. ↗

— Harold Ross

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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

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It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters. ↗

— Peter Benenson

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I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. ↗

— Georg Cantor

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I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air. ↗

— George Combe

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The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right. ↗

— John Conyers

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As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience. ↗

— Sylvia Day

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I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it. ↗

— Lori Greiner

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I think that's not a question that one can answer accurately. I read a whole range of books, quite a lot of history at the time, and still do read a lot. I read very widely. ↗

— John Hume

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Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs. ↗

— David Low

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