"If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!"

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Source : William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

William Strunk, Jr.

“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.”
“I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.”

Source : "'The Campaign's' Dylan McDermott Reveals How He Broke the Ice His First Day on Set" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 10, 2012.
“The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.”
“This is no place for a girl on fire.”
“The life that goes out in love to all life is the life that is full, and rich, and continually expanding in beauty and in power.”
“Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.”
“The percept is the landscape before man, in the absence of man.”
“It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.”

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