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• Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Issues, Morality, Court

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• Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Country, Patriotic, Judging

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• I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.

  Regina Brett

  Book, Giving, Overcoming

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• It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Awkward, Needs

  "A Doctor's Visit". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1898.

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• It's much easier to have nothing to live up to. You surprise people when you form a full sentence.

  Pamela Anderson

  People, Up To You, Surprise

  "Pamela Anderson: 'I'm not talking about my boobs - that's very 1999'" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Oh, remember that as certain as the historical fact, He died on Calvary; so certain is the prophetic fact, He shall reign, and you and I will stand there. I durst not touch that subject. Take it into your own hearts, and think about it, a kingdom, a judgment-seat, a crown, a gathered universe; separation, decision, execution of the sentence.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Thinking, Decision

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous, unfathomable. Thus there is no adequate one-sentence definition of genuine community. Community is something more than the sum of its parts, its individual members. What is this "something more?" Even to begin to answer that, we enter a realm that is not so much abstract as almost mystical. It is a realm where words are never fully suitable and language itself falls short.

  M. Scott Peck

  Fall, Community, Answers

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I still have a hard time saying who Johnny [ Cash ] is in one sentence. He seemed so contradictory in his actions, and I think that's probably what is most fascinating about him and what made him such an interesting character to study.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Character, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: movieweb.com

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• You must never let your personal life be outpaced by your professional life. If you do, [if] your professional life takes more of your time than your personal life, then that's called stress, okay? And it's called worry and things like that. Worry is a sign that you're trying to be God. The greatest stress reliever to me is this sentence: God is God, and I'm not.

  Rick Warren

  Stress, Worry, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The first book ever written in an alphabet was the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament. And the most important passage was the Ten Commandments. The first commandment is the most revolutionary sentence ever written. It states: "I am the Lord thy God there is no other." The second prohibits us from making images. Thus, there is a profound rejection of any goddess influence and a ban of representative art.

  Leonard Shlain

  Art, Book, Profound

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• Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.

  Chris Hayes

  Way, Kind, Fairs

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• The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences.

  Rheta Grimsley Johnson

  Sports, Writing, Sea

  Rheta Grimsley Johnson (2010). “Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir”, p.190, NewSouth Books

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• I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Different, Looks

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• It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after dinner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with stops to pick flowers; but in the office your sentences should be the shortest distance possible between periods.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Girl, Running, Distance

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.25, Lulu.com

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• Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Justice, Tribunals

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.191, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Forever, Speak, Affair

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters”

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• I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragraph—each sentence, even—as I go along.

  William Styron

  Writing, Thinking, Hands

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• Fate's sentence written on the brow no hand can e'er efface.

  Bhartrhari

  Fate, Hands, Brows

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• The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

  Richard Brautigan

  Rain, Verbs, Dirt

  1968 Please Plant This Book,'Squash'.

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• When I was a kid, the punishment I disliked the most was writing sentences. My mother loved to make me record my transgressions--always a minimum of five hundred times--and she even bought special spiral notebooks for me to fill up.... No matter how many notebooks I went through, there was always another one waiting in the kitchen drawer.

  Clay Aiken

  Notebook, Mother, Writing

  Clay Aiken, Allison Glock (2004). “Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life”, p.10, Random House

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• A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

  William Shakespeare

  Gloves, May, Sides

  William Shakespeare (1859). “The Plays of Shakespeare”, p.255

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• A good sentence is a key . It unlocks the mind of the reader.

  Eric Hoffer

  Keys, Mind, Reader

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• If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.

  Eric Hoffer

  Accomplished, Ask Me, Asks

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• Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice.

  Isaac Asimov

  Curves, Long, Juice

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.19, Spectra

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• Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.

  Plutarch

  Argument, Force, Thousand

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.334

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