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No compromise is possible and the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and… — George C. Marshall
The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things.… — Wilhelm Reich
It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some… — Audrey Hepburn
It's not funny at all that we do all that advertising for children. Why is advertising for children allowed? What possible reason can there be… — Emma Thompson
Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence. — Lewis Mumford
And we remember the end of our combat mission and the emergence of a new dawn -- the precision of our efforts against al Qaeda… — Barack Obama
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if… — Isaac Asimov
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story… — Orson Scott Card
An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to… — Christopher Fry
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble… — Mark Twain
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand. — Quintilian
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is… — Kurt Vonnegut
Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was… — Paul Hawken
Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible — Barack Obama
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.… — Ian Rankin
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language… — Bill Bryson
I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides. — Pamela Frankau
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one… — Ernest Hemingway
One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the… — Denise Levertov
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument. — J. B. Priestley

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