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The dominant feature of the later legislation has been this steady reduction of the status of the native, and, though the intention has been protective,… — Paul Hasluck
All new schools...should be models for sustainable development: showing every child in the classroom and the playground how smart building and energy use can help… — Tony Blair
It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper… — John Quincy Adams
For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans… — John F. Kennedy
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it… — Henry Van Dyke
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments. — Paul Tillich
I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your… — Jane Goodall
To me, a philosopher who says that the distinction between human and nonhuman depends on whether you have a white or a black skin, and… — J M Coetzee
To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. — Albert Einstein
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple,… — Larry McMurtry
Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your… — Elwyn Brooks White
There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers. — H. L. Mencken
Cuisine has become too complicated - this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce. — Alain Ducasse
It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade… — Abigail Van Buren
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. — John Ray
I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the… — George Orwell
The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent… — Noam Chomsky
A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate. — Aristotle
Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on… — L. Ron Hubbard
My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop… — William Zinsser
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge, a surgeon's probe.… — Annie Dillard
You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved. — Tracy Kidder
Writing is thinking on paper. Anyone who thinks clearly should be able to write clearly-about any subject at all. — William Zinsser
I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just… — Joyce Carol Oates

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