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• Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Talking, Editors

  Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I didn't expect it to come so quickly. It's been hard to keep up with. There's been articles in the papers that say I've got too big for my boots but people who know me say I'm just the same. Things have changed in my life but I haven't, too many people would knock me down if I did.

  David Beckham

  People, Boots, Bigs

  "RNC Launches ‘Obama Is A Celeb’ Website" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 08, 2008.

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• The correct method for tracking the stock market is to use semilogarithmic chart paper, since the market's history is sensibly related only on a percentage basis. The investor is concerned with percentage gain or loss, not the number of points traveled in a market average. Arithmetic scale is quite acceptable for tracking hourly waves. Channeling techniques work acceptably well on arithmetic scale with shorter term moves.

  Robert Prechter

  Moving, Loss, Average

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• If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding.

  Muriel Spark

  Writing, Cat, Serenity

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• We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

  Mark Twain

  People, Rich, Feds

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.314, Univ of California Press

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• Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Needs, Badges

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Thinking, Sorrow

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). “Selected letters, 1940-1956”, Penguin Paperbacks

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• Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.

  Beryl Markham

  Silence, Steel, Strive

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.162, Open Road Media

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• I want to get totally rid of class distinction. As someone put it one of the papers this morning: Marks and Spencer have triumphed over Karl Marx and Engels.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Morning, Class, Want

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• I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!

  Ray Bradbury

  Passion, Writing, Names

  Ray Bradbury (2011). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• I know of no painless process for giving birth to a picture idea. When I must produce, I retire to a quiet room with a supply of cheap paper and sharp pencils; my brain knows it's going to take a beating.

  Norman Rockwell

  Ideas, Giving, Brain

  Susan E. Meyer, Norman Rockwell (1981). “Norman Rockwell's people”, ABRAMS

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• Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

  Dee Hock

  People, Heaven, Principles

  Dee Hock (2005). “One from Many: VISA and the Rise of Chaordic Organization”, p.162, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Confidence, not paper or digital money, is the key currency in a capitalist system.

  Mal Fletcher

  Keys, Digital, Currency

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• Plan your garden on paper. Mistakes made on paper won't cost you much in time or money.

  Elsa Bakalar

  Mistake, Garden, Cost

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• You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.

  David Edelstein

  Country, Reading, Mean

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• The two most important documents affecting the destiny of America are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Both these immortal papers relate primarily to the freedom of the individual.

  David O. McKay

  Destiny, Two, America

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• The founders of our nation feared paper currency because it gave government the means to steal from its citizens.

  Walter E. Williams

  Mean, Government, Citizens

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• New taxes are so unpopular that most 'social' handout schemes are originally enacted without enough increased taxation to pay for them. The result is chronic government deficits, paid for by the issuance of additional paper money.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Taxation, Pay

  Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”

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• Money could never have originated as paper.

  James Cook

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• The New York Times is most definitely a left-wing concern that is openly contemptuous of the conservative, traditional point of view. That is the primary reason the paper may soon dissolve.

  Bill O'Reilly

  New York, Views, Wings

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• From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or, more specifically, under a monetary system in which people used gold and silver coins rather than paper money as the media of exchange.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  Media, People, Gold

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• In explaining the Constitution, James Madison, the acknowledged father of the Constitution, wrote in Federalist Paper 45: 'The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peach, negotiation, and foreign commerce.' Has the Constitution been amended to permit Congress to tax, spend and regulate as it pleases or have Americans said, 'To hell with the Constitution'?

  Walter E. Williams

  Father, War, Government

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• One third of the $15 trillion of mortgages in existence in 2008 are owned, or securitized by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, the Federal Housing and the Veterans Administration. Wall Street buyers of repackaged loans didn't mind buying risky paper because they assumed that they would be guaranteed by the federal government: read bailout from the taxpayers. Today's housing mess can be laid directly at the feet of Congress and the White House.

  Walter E. Williams

  Wall, White, Feet

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.47, Hoover Institution Press

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• Hope looks good on paper. But what creates greatness is focus, dedication and hard work. Daily. Go do it. We deserve to see you fly in 2014.

  Robin Sharma

  Hard Work, Dedication, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jan 02, 2014

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• Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Water, Milk, Moral

  Henry Hazlitt (1965). “What You Should Know about Inflation”, p.132, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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