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Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the… — Peggy Noonan
Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal. — Paul Ricoeur
The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote. — Leland Ryken
With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is… — Leland Ryken
Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly [...] All the earlier proposals… — Valery Giscard d'Estaing
Mike Myatt’s ‘Hacking Leadership’ is a must read… Mike combines insightful yet practical commentary with in the trenches leadership experience few can match. I would… — Vijay Govindarajan
Safe sex is great sex, better wear a latex, cause you don't want that late text, that 'I think I'm late' text. — Lil Wayne
Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a… — Peter Redgrove
Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational… — Umberto Eco
Many liberals believe in God; many conservatives do. What matters is not whether people believe in God but what text, if any, they believe to… — Dennis Prager
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or by… — Alberto Manguel
Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again… — Thomas Jefferson
Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the… — Gore Vidal
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library.… — Stephen Leacock
A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in… — Alberto Manguel
I remember, as a child, the confusion of not knowing what this place was where I was supposed to spend the night: it's a disquieting… — Alberto Manguel
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. — Harold Bloom
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text. — Henry James
The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however… — Robertson Davies
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated entity: it is… — Jorge Luis Borges
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the… — Donald Knuth
I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text. — Rachel Maddow

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