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Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
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The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
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In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
My mind absorbs things in a funny way. I'm on planes quite a bit and I always take stacks and stacks of… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
I'm not typing. I write only by longhand. I've always written first drafts by hand and then once I was into a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion… — Mark Salzman Copy Share Image
I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Yes, the fear of its blankness. At the same time, I kind of loved it. Mallarmé was trying to make the page… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
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I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a… — Johnny Thunders Copy Share Image
Mr. J.S. Mill speaks, in his celebrated work, "Utilitarianism," of the social feelings as a "powerful natural sentiment," and as "the natural… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
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Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm.… — Jim Bridenstine Copy Share Image
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Our tax code is arcane, burdensome and unwieldy. In the years since Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the code has gone… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
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Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise -… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
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