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*Accuracy in a text is not enough. A desirable text is more than a collection of accurate references. It is also an expression of personality. A voice should be sensed as a whole. You have to have a chance to sense personality in order for language to have its full meaning." ---Jaron Lanier, [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism]
*Accuracy in a text is not enough. A desirable text is more than a collection of accurate references. It is also an expression of personality. A voice should be sensed as a whole. You have to have a chance to sense personality in order for language to have its full meaning." –Jaron Lanier, [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism]
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*Nothing is indescribable in words if you take the time and trouble.  If your present language framework is inadequate, then you must carefully create a larger one.  ---Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites, Monkfish, Rhinebeck, 2005
*Nothing is indescribable in words if you take the time and trouble.  If your present language framework is inadequate, then you must carefully create a larger one.  –Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites, Monkfish, Rhinebeck, 2005
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*The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. ---Richard P. Feynman
*The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. –[[Richard Feynman|Richard P. Feynman]]
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*Any Universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it.  ---John Barrow
*Any Universe simple enough to be understood is too simple to produce a mind able to understand it.  –[[John Barrow]]
:*I offer then the suggestion that the process that produced and sustains living things, if a simple one, would be too simple to have produced minds able to understand it.  ---A.S
:*I offer then the suggestion that the process that produced and sustains living things, if a simple one, would be too simple to have produced minds able to understand it.  –A.S
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*However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.  ---Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
*However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.  –[[Winston Churchill]] (1874-1965)
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*The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, fool-proof, shit detector.  ---Ernest Hemingway
*The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, fool-proof, shit detector.  –[[Ernest Hemingway]]
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*A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.  ---Ludwig Wittgenstein
*A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.  –[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]
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*I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.  ---Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
*I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.  –[[Samuel Johnson]], lexicographer (1709-1784)
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*Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of . . . words.  ---Whitaker
*Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of . . . words.  –Whitaker
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*One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment.  ---Hart Crane, poet (1899-1932)
*One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment.  –Hart Crane, poet (1899-1932)
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*You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.  ---F. Scott Fitzgerald
*You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.  –[[F. Scott Fitzgerald]]
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*Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.  ---Ludwig Wittgenstein
*Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.  –[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]
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*Writing a 'balanced', well-synthesized, non-argumentative, non-point-of-view article will always present a challenge for authors/editors, but never a challenge that a mature, professional, motivated writer(s) cannot meet. And meeting that challenge achieves the quality CZ aspires to. ---[[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony Sebastian]]<br><br>
*Writing a 'balanced', well-synthesized, non-argumentative, non-point-of-view article will always present a challenge for authors/editors, but never a challenge that a mature, professional, motivated writer(s) cannot meet. And meeting that challenge achieves the quality CZ aspires to. [[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony Sebastian]]<br><br>
*The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning-bug. ---Mark Twain
*The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between the lightning and the lightning-bug. –Mark Twain
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*Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. ---Attributed to the Dalai Lama
*Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality. –Attributed to the [[Dalai Lama]]
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*The value of a good summary article is in the choice of what details to leave out. ---Jaron Lanier
*The value of a good summary article is in the choice of what details to leave out. –Jaron Lanier
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==So you want to be a writer==
==So you want to be a writer==
Excerpt from Charles Bukowski's poem with that title:
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