"Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content."

-- Gerald Brommer

#Editing Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Steps Quotes

“If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”
“All things which are similar and therefore connected, are drawn to each other's power.”
“I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.”
“Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.”
“I met a lot of the senior Taliban, and I asked them precisely [about Mullah Omar]. The most common answer was he is humble. And that was very true. We never had reports of Mullah Omar living luxuriously or making money in large quantities or anything like that.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.”
“No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear ...”
“Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.”

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