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Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.
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The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.
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Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
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The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we…
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The main advantage of working at home is that you get to find out what cats really do all day.
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Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books…
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As someone who sends texts messages more or less non-stop, I enjoy one particular aspect of texting more than anything else: that…
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Punctuation is a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling.
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Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?
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After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
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As with email, the recipient of a texted question seems to have the option to ignore it, while nevertheless saying, 'Hello, lovely…
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I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was…
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We are what we are, because of the vibrations of thought which we pick up and register, through the stimuli of our…
— Napoleon Hill
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All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick…
— Steve Almond
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We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together,…
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We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a…
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In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of…
— Bo Lozoff
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Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the…
— Helen Simonson
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I was asked why I did not give a rod with which to fish, in the hands of the poor, rather than…
— Mother Teresa
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When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.
— Stephen Covey
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We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories…
— James Alexander Thom
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If we pick recognition over influence we'll be known for all the wrong stuff.
— Bob Goff
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When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up…
— Frederick Lenz
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The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit, pure light,…
— Frederick Lenz
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