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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
ratios serious banking
Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system. Ben Bernanke
ratios rewards rewards-in-life
Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service. Earl Nightingale
ratios wheat investment
I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time. Garry Trudeau
ratios goodness punning
The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability. Edgar Allan Poe
ratios enough ifs
If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear Jim Rohn
ratios software higher
It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software. Nat Friedman
ratios increase subsistence
Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. Thomas Malthus
ratios increase decrease
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases. Thomas Carlyle
literacy leap
There is no such thing as a leap into literacy. David Petersen
literacy literature society teach trying value
We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more. Paul Thomson
literacy fractions has-beens
Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. Marshall McLuhan
literacy slave reason
There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power. Matt Taibbi
literacy instruction
Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions. Ursula K. Le Guin