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Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned by reading the work of their predecessors. They studied meter with Ovid, plot construction with Homer, comedy with Aristophanes; they honed their prose style by absorbing the lucid sentences of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson.

~Francine Prose

Topics: Absorb Anyone Before Comedy Conference Construction Eye Homer Idea Johnson Learned Long Lucid Meter Plot Predecessors Prose Reading Samuel Sentences Studied Style Work Writer Writers

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One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

~Frank Rich

Topics: Absorb Alone American Bad Bad News Century Cultural Early Most News Persistent Prepare Reluctance 21St Century

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Our music has always been instant reactive and I guess taking our time to absorb things and say what you really want to say could be much more offensive than anything we've ever done.

~Fred Durst

Topics: Absorb Always Anything Been Could Done Ever Guess Instant More Much Music Offensive Our Our Music Our Time Reactive Really Say Taking Than Things Time Want You

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Living life at a young age is like being a sponge thrust into the ocean. You absorb what's around you. If you're around people who are supportive and positive, that's how you look at the world.

~Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Topics: Absorb Age Around Being How Life Like Living Living Life Look Ocean People Positive Sponge Supportive Thrust Who World You Young Young Age

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Whatever the trend in exchange rates or whatever the external factors, a manufacturing company is always faced with the mission of transforming itself into a company that can produce higher value-added to absorb the increase in the cost of living in the country it's operating in.

~Fujio Mitarai

Topics: Absorb Always Company Cost Country Exchange External Faced Factors Higher Increase Itself Living Manufacturing Mission Operating Produce Rates Transforming Trend Value-Added Whatever

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Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

~Georg Simmel

Topics: Absorb Constantly Culture Energies Entirety Grow Growing Impersonal Individual Less Modern More More And More Objective Out Subjective

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The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

~George F. Kennan

Topics: Absorb Civilized Concept Generation History Implies Lessons Lose Meaning Own People Preserve Problems Reader Records Relate Scholar Study Study History Them Too Very Without Would

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Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

~George Pierce Baker

Topics: Absorb Acted Develops Drama Play Requires Self Surrender Sympathetic

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On a bus, your eyes, ears, and pores are open absorbing in the variety, the wonder, and the magic of the city. It's a wonderful way to get to know the city.

~George Takei

Topics: Absorb Bus City Ears Eyes Get Know Magic Open Variety Way Wonder Wonderful Wonderful Way Your

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