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Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a…
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The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.
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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
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It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
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Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
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The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers…
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A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
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The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,
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The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
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A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
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In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing…
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In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the…
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
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In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear.
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The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not…
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Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.
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Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except…
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A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become…
— Freeman Dyson
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Photography is the easiest thing in the world if one is willing to accept pictures that are flaccid, limp, bland, banal, indiscriminately…
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Inasmuch as it is manifest from experience that if the Holy Bible, translated into the vulgar tongue, be indiscriminately allowed to every…
— Pope Pius IV
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than…
— William Blackstone
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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't…
— David Foster
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Obstacles can arise from good as well as bad circumstances, but they should never deter or overpower you. Be like the earth,…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will…
— Shane Claiborne
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