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People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is… — Richard Mitchell
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma… — Mark Slouka
A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with! — Berton Braley
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did… — Tahereh Mafi
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken… — KatÃ³ Lomb
If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up! — Tony Lema
If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one. — Arthur Brisbane
In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of… — Robert Bringhurst
I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up… — Brian P. Cleary
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his… — William Kingdon Clifford
Let other people finish their sentences when they’re talking. — Randy Pausch
Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in… — Jane Kenyon
School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. — John Taylor Gatto
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a… — Alexander Cockburn
Soul ties. The thing that can make you hear an old-school slow jam and think of somebody you haven’t seen in years. Soul ties. The… — Kirk Franklin
I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . .… — Samuel Beckett
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the… — Florence Ellinwood Allen
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer this suggestion? First,… — L. Tom Perry
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final… — David Hume
In the history of life, no good news has followed that sentence ["We have to talk."]. — Paul Reiser
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue… — William Booth
I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose,… — Garth Ennis
Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a… — Eric Schlosser
The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of… — John Amos Comenius
Life as we know it is a death sentence. — Joseph Curiale

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