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• I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.

  Ha Jin

  Book, Hard Work, Hard

  FaceBook post by Ha Jin from May 14, 2012

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• Methods and conclusions formed by half the race only, must necessarily require revision as the other half of humanity rises into conscious responsibility.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Responsibility, Race, Humanity

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• He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution.

  William Howard Taft

  White, House, Speech

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• I think one of the reasons I'm so thrilled with writing is because it is an act of reading for me at the same time, which is why my revisions are so sustained.

  Toni Morrison

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 1, 2012.

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• The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary and deliberate revisions and additions of our own, more or less directly occasioned by the continuing stimulation of our sense organs. It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Father, White, Hands

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.

  Akira Mori

  Business, Real, Risk

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• Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Brain, Quiet

  Siri Hustvedt (2008). “The Sorrows of an American: A Novel”, p.80, Macmillan

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• I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

  Katherine Paterson

  Ice Cream, Milk, Ice

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• Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

  Barrett Wendell

  Writing, Paragraph, Sentences

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• When we can commit a crime, we can also trigger debate. Cases go to courts. Media start covering the cases. But once you build smart environments where, if you meet a certain probabilistic profile, you won't even be allowed to board a bus, let alone commit a crime, we're perpetuating existing laws so they face no challenges or revision.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Smart, Media, Law

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• Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.

  Gore Vidal

  Art, Real, Writing

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• Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write short stories, novels, and poetry, do revisions, and so on. You have the basic tool to fulfill your writing dreams. But beware. This type of writing will uncover other dreams you have, too-going to Tibet, being the first woman president of the United States, building a solar studio in New Mexico-and they will be in black and white. It will be harder to avoid them.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Dream, Writing, Black And White

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.75, Shambhala Publications

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• I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.

  Cate Marvin

  Believe, Hard Work, Students

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• I wrote in the mornings, often in cafes, on the way to the office. I gave myself a daily word minimum, usually 750. I tried to save revision for the weekends, when I had more consecutive hours to string together.

  Christopher Castellani

  Morning, Weekend, Office

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is only a poet at the moment when he is making his last revision to a new poem. The moment before, he was still only a potential poet; the moment after, he is a man who has ceased to write poetry, perhaps forever.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Eye, Men

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• I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

  Kiese Laymon

  Writing, And Love, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

  Hillary Clinton

  Use, Manipulation, Propaganda

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• Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of Christianity -that can be called in the fullest sense a "revolution": a truly massive and epochal revision of humanity's prevailing vision of reality, so pervasive in its influence and so vast in its consequences as to actually have created a new conception of the world, of history, of human nature, of time, and of the moral good.

  David Bentley Hart

  Reality, Humanity, Vision

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• My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time.

  Robin Ince

  Firsts, Life Is, First Time

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.

  Ivica Dacic

  War, World, Forget

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• Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

  Tracy Kidder

  Writing, Prose

  Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd (2013). “Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction”, p.19, Random House

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• The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Rafting, Essentials, Demand

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v”

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• The job description of mother is clearly in need of revision. As it stands, the shifts are 24 hours, for a period of approximately 1,825 consecutive days. The benefits are sorely in need of amendment: no vacations, no sick leave, no lunch hours, no breaks. Moreover, it is the only unpaid position I know of that can result in arrest if you fail to show up for work.

  Mary Blakely

  Mother, Jobs, Vacation

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• I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.

  Sefi Atta

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis for viewing and interpreting experience. Rather it is the complete structural revision of that which is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Buddhist, Philosophical

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