William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
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A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen.
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I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
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Uncertainty of any sort results in volatility, and Brexit will be no exception.
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I'm not expecting the American literary community to welcome me with open arms. To them I'm just some schmuck kid who wrote some book.
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The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome as associate members.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.
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I got quite good results from protein plates.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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I want everyone in the Republican party who opposed me to know this: you are welcome to join this people's crusade. Come aboard. You are both welcome and needed. If we unite, we'll win - and we'll rebuild New York.
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I would welcome satirical references to political leaders as part of freedom of expression.
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When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
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I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
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We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.
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As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
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Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.
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I think any of us who have been involved in the mission of Iraq have developed a great deal of affection for the Iraqi people and are emotionally invested in what we think is a vital mission... So I think any of my contemporaries would welcome the opportunity to go back and make a contribution to this extraordinarily important mission.
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
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Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.
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There are a lot of talkers in the world. There are a lot of people who know what’s right and what’s powerful, yet still aren’t producing the results they desire. It’s not enough to talk the talk. You’ve got to walk the talk
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You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.
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I do not mean to say that such institutions act unilaterally on psychic life, or that they determine certain psychic outcomes. Rather, they exploit forms of fear and insecurity that are there for any population - no political organisation of life could ever fully do away with fear and insecurity; but some work to intensify, accelerate, and make more acute forms of fear, and to provide ideological focus for such intensified fears, at which point critical thinking has a fierce rival. The critical analysis that shows precisely how those forms of fear are promulgated, and for what purpose.
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Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.
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I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
