"If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how……" — Lynne Truss
"If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result."
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60 Quotes by Lynne Truss
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint…
— William S. Burroughs
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Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give…
— Maxwell Maltz
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few…
— Gijs de Vries
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
— William James
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We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to…
— Ralph Miller
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The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
— Wayne Dyer
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The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the…
— Norbert Wiener
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat…
— Rollo May
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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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