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		The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
	
	  Eden Hazard Eden Hazard
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		What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
	
	  Camille Paglia Camille Paglia
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		Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
	
	  Kary Mullis Kary Mullis
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		I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ever seen. He could bullet that ball 70 yards.
	
	  Gale Sayers Gale Sayers
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		You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.
	
	  Rafael Palmeiro Rafael Palmeiro
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		What I'm interested in is how your career choices can affect your private life, romantically or with your mom, your relatives, your friends, your hometown, and how media manipulates information - not newspapers or blogs, but the magazines that people impulse-buy that tell you what's hot and who's not.
	
	  Xavier Dolan Xavier Dolan
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		All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.
	
	  Frances Beinecke Frances Beinecke
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		I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
	
	  Harold Bloom Harold Bloom
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		My trust is not that I am holy, but that, being unholy, Christ died for me. My rest is here, not in what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is and must be,- in what Christ did and is still doing as He stands before yonder throne of glory.
	
	  Charles Spurgeon Charles Spurgeon
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		Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.
	
	  David Suzuki David Suzuki
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		On YouTube, when you have a big viral success with a song that isn't your own, the natural inclination for most YouTubers is to keep doing that. What you really should do is show people that you actually have substance and can write your own music.
	
	  Charlie Puth Charlie Puth
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		Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.
	
	  Saint Augustine Saint Augustine