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• This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Expectations, Criticism

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• How little room Do we take up in death, that, living, know No bounds!

  James Shirley

  Death, Littles, Rooms

  'The Wedding' (1626) act 4, sc. 4

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• The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

  Terry Eagleton

  Important, Principles, Prejudice

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• I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.

  Billy Collins

  Notebook, Writing, Doors

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• Progress is more of a challenge for the cynic but also more important and urgent, since for the optimist things aren't that bad and are bound to get better anyway.

  Julian Baggini

  Challenges, Get Better, Progress

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

  Luke Bryan

  Thinking, Media, Social

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• Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

  Sydney Brenner

  Challenges, Important, Gone

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• The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Successful, Fighting, Firsts

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• I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

  Caleb Cushing

  House, Principles, Constitution

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• One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Teacher, Reading, Writing

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• I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical.

  Henry Cavill

  Men, Six, X Men

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• There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!

  Joan Chen

  People, Way, Making Money

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

  Barbara Deming

  Mean, Men, Names

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• Four personalities are bound to clash.

  John Deacon

  Personality, Four, Clash

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• Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

  Jay Griffiths

  Grace, Timing, Individual

  "The 'leap second' is a timely reminder" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

  Joan Van Ark

  Character, Two, Together

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements.

  Michael Arad

  Differences, Collaboration, Elements

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• We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.

  Mike Easley

  People, North Carolina, Common

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• They call me Superman, leap tall hoes in a single bound.

  Eminem

  Hoe, Call Me, Leap

  Song: Superman, Album: The Eminem Show

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• I get whiskey bent and hell bound.

  Hank Williams, Jr.

  Evil, Whiskey, Hell

  Song: Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound, 2006

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• Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.

  Paul Simon

  Couple, Night, Winning

  Song: Lincoln Duncan, Album: Paul Simon

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• Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Revolution, Events

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.14, Verso

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• If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

  Plato

  Law, Giving, Office

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• Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.

  Rene Descartes

  Life, Men, Use

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• And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life, Character, Men

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