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Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can… — Jim Rohn
Programs should be written and polished until they acquire publication quality. — Niklaus Wirth
Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence… — William Makepeace Thackeray
It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in… — John Conyers
Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper. — Margaret Thatcher
Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to… — Margaret Thatcher
Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet. — Kirby Puckett
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information.… — Ellen Lupton
Ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction. That was the whole idea, right? That‘s why we went. I am reluctant to let that fact disappear… — Rachel Maddow
I become irritated when I am being written off as aloof or stand-offish when I'm shy and don't know what to say. — Trent Reznor
The enemy is not the badly written page; it is the empty page the great advantage of a badly written page is that it can… — Timothy Hallinan
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it. — William Golding
I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it. — Laurie Anderson
When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every one raised their… — Jack Canfield
Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for… — Nick Cave
A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about. — Joseph Roth
Make a written list of everything you love. — Rhonda Byrne
Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities… — Unknown Author
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script. — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats — Irving Layton
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while… — Ron Chernow
Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false. — Augusto Roa Bastos
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written. — Robert Hass
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare… — Cheikh Anta Diop
I have the gift of neither the spoken nor the written word, especially if I have to say something about myself or my work. Whoever… — Gustav Klimt

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