"I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track."
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"The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions."
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"Add two letters two paris and it's paradise."
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"The quickest and easiest way to improve your health and mood is by taking omega 3 supplements, in the form of fish oils or flaxseed. Add a good general multivitamin and mineral daily as well, as this will ensure that any trace deficiencies causing health or mood problems are addressed."
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"Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it."
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"Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts."
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"If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education."
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"Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things."
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"I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade."
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"When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you."
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"Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach."
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"Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra."
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"Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters"
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"Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful."
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"The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it."
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"I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough."
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"Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens."
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"I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me."
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"My name is Ellen and I'm a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I've said it."
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"The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink."
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