"Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end."

-- Patricia Wentworth

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“Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths.”
“In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles, he must furnish particular instances of their application.”

Source : William Strunk, Jr. (1972). “The Elements of Style”
“I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer”
“We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming”
“What most news people don't comprehend is that most of the public are not heavy information seekers - unlike journalists and the smaller portion of the population that is socially, politically and economically active.”
“Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“Man must be a co-worker with God in making this earth a garden.”

Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1996). “ספר חמשה חומשי תורה עם ההפטרות: נדפס על פי המסורה ומתורגם אנגלית”
“People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.”

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