"If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off."

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Catherine the Great

#Writing Quotes #Eyebrows Quotes

“People think if they voted for somebody, they should reflexively defend everything they do or say. And if you voted against somebody, you should just as reflexively oppose everything they do or say. It's not very helpful. What's more constructive for our kids is to go on a case-by-case basis, evaluating particular policies.”

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“We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.”
“To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language.”
“I can give you the cause of anaphylactic shock in a nutshell.”
“Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.”
“It [1991 Federal budget] contains almost 190,000 accounts. At a rate of one per minute, eight hours a day, it would take over a year to reflect upon these!”
“Successful Mothers are not the ones that have never struggled. They are the ones that never give up, despite the struggles.”
“There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.”

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