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		Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mary Pilon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly [...] All the earlier proposals will be in the new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Valery Giscard d'Estaing
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People who text a lot are not my favorite thing.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Penny Marshall
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Crystal
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have so many girlfriends who are powerhouses: They have big careers, are fearless in traveling in third-world countries or a launching non-profit. But they won't text a guy for fear of being perceived as desperate. That is broken.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Whitney Wolfe Herd
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Composers need words, but they do not necessarily need poetry. The Russian composer, Aleksandr Mossolov, who chose texts from newspaper small ads, had a good point to make. With revolutionary music, any text can be set to work.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Fenton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jason Reitman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Octavio Paz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		People text when they're meant to actually be driving. So imagine what they do when they think the car's got it under control.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Astro Teller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Barack Obama
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Douglas Adams
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jenny Zhang
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		For 8,000 years, we've had lyric poetry; for 400 years we've had the novel: theatre hands its meaning down in text. Let's find a medium whose total, sole responsibility is the world as seen as a form of visual intelligence. Surely, surely, surely the cinema should be that phenomenon.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peter Greenaway
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		This text is, in fact, a rerun of a great part of the substance of the constitutional treaty.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Valery Giscard d'Estaing
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Like most successful businesses, you and your employees have a vast knowledge base and expertise in your vertical, as well as a lot of great video and text content to prove it. So, why not monetize your expertise and create digital products and membership courses?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Rampton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Hogben's Science for the Citizen would be an admirable text-book for such teaching.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Desmond Bernal
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There is some argument about who actually invented text messaging, but I think it's safe to say it was a man. Multiple studies have shown that the average man uses about half as many words per day as women, thus text messaging. It eliminates hellos and goodbyes and cuts right to the chase.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ashton Kutcher
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm a big shoe guy, too. I have far too many pairs. Whenever there's a new style out, I'll text my stylist: 'Can we get a pair of those?'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Jonas
			
			
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