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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing

Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. – Bill Hoest (1926–1988)

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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai Stevenson, quoted in Ronald D. Fuchs, You Said a Mouthful

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Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. – Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927

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Journal: fitting your heart and soul into ruled lines. – Terri Guillemets

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness. – David Augsburger

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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere. – Calvin Trillin

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Women didnt want to be on the stage with other women because they didnt want their bodies to be compared. They didnt want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude. – Kathleen Hanna

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Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top. – Andrea Jung

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