Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not. - William Zinsser - Quotesmemo.com

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William Zinsser

Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not.

Goal, Look, Looks, May, Security, Wary

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Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.

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Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.

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The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.

Firsts, Important, Induce, Reader, Sentence

Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.

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If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.

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Now clearly this advantage is when the data on tape has been found and just needs to be transferred back. You need to add a minute or so of seek time to find the data. On large transfers, though, tape should outpace most disk systems. From an ingest perspective, LTO-6 and other enterprise tape formats may be unrivaled when compared on a single unit basis.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

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John Podesta

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In fact, I think that Governor Clinton, when he was running, and President Clinton, when he was serving, actually governed with a wide range of advisors and a perspective that blended the best of ideas from the center and the left.

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Vigen Guroian

Let every Christian be a gardener so that he and she and the whole of creation, which groans in expectation of the Spirit's final harvest, may inherit Paradise. If we Christian's truly treasure the hope that one day we, like Adam and the penitent thief, will walk alongside the One who caused even the dead wood of the Cross to blossom with flowers, then we must also imitate the Master's art and make the desolate earth grow green.

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Cynthia Rylant

I love being a writer because I want to leave something here on earth to make it better, prettier, stronger.

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