Barrett Wendell Quotes
Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
Barrett Wendell
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There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.
Gary Ross
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Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard.
D. Todd Christofferson
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A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.
D. Todd Christofferson
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I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.
Lisa See
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A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
Abraham Lincoln
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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
Ernest Hemingway
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The market is now looking for some further rate hikes in the U.S. and that is going to keep the dollar supported in the near-term.
Ian Stannard
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century.
William McKinley
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Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing.
Diogenes
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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
Michelangelo
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It's tiny out there...it's inconsequential. It's ironic that we had come to study the Moon and it was really discovering the Earth.
William Anders
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I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.
William Manchester
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Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.
Joshua Foer
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I don't really wanna think about themes. I wanna just think about the experience of the movie. I feel like, as soon as I reduce it to a theme, once I write that sentence, it won't be that great. I feel like there's more potential for it to mean something interesting if I'm not forcing it to mean something I've already decided.
Wes Anderson
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It is all about the quality of the communication, not the quantity.
Buck Brannaman
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Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.
Barrett Wendell
