A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
~ Gertrude Stein
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People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
~ William Faulkner
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In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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Modern industrial design is based on the principle of conspicuous economy [but] the bourgeois culture which dominates the Western World is founded … on the principle of conspicuous waste.
~ Lewis Mumford
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The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.
~ Confucius
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To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
~ Lao Zi
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Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move.
~ William Faulkner
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As a rule, begin each paragraph with a topic sentence; end it in conformity with the beginning.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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