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I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.

~Adam Ross

Topics: Any Chance Chapter Constructing Deep Fact Good Hard Hard Work Knack Knows Lick Paragraph Really Remains Sentence Sentences Something Storytelling Tap Think Won Work Worth Writer You I Think

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The democracy we are constructing must be able to show its usefulness and relevance.

~Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

Topics: Able Constructing Democracy Must Relevance Show Usefulness

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In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Constructing Controlling Dam Electricity High Impact Irrigation Lived National Nile Personally President Production Project Vision 1960S

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I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.

~Aleksandar Hemon

Topics: Brain Cannot Come Constructing Fiction Handy Live Music Normally Parts Stimulates Without Write

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Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

~Anatole France

Topics: Acceptance Against Believers Certain Constructing Degree Devout High Illnesses Neurosis Neurotic Personal Risk Spares Task Them Universal

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In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

~Aristotle

Topics: Action As Far As Before Constructing Diction Discover Everything Eyes Far He His His Way Keeping Most Out Overlook Place Plot Poet Possible Proper Scene Seeing Should Spectator Unlikely Utmost Way Were Will Working

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I've always been intellectually restless, but it is the building part of it that most interests me. It is the constructing of the team that is my favorite part. Anyone who is familiar with the history of the A's franchise, even dating back to Philadelphia, knows that every five or 10 years, you have to tear it apart and rebuild it.

~Billy Beane

Topics: Always Anyone Apart Back Been Building Constructing Dating Even Every Familiar Favorite Favorite Part Five Franchise History Intellectually Interests Knows Me Most Part Philadelphia Rebuild Restless Team Tear The History Of Who Years You

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Small businesses no longer need to feel like a deer in the headlights when considering constructing or updating their Web sites. With ClickThings what you see is what you get, unlike some other competitive Web-based Website building tools.

~Boomer Esiason

Topics: Building Businesses Competitive Considering Constructing Deer Feel Get Headlights Like Longer Need Other See Sites Small Small Businesses Some Tools Unlike Web Web Sites Website You

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I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.

~Brit Marling

Topics: Away Because Constructing Draft Early End Figure Final First Just Lot Mathematics Out Perfect Realized Really Scene Spend Story Think Throwing Time Up Very You I Think

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John Austin, author of 'Cubicle Warfare,' has outdone himself with 'Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction,' a fully illustrated step-by-step guide to constructing thirty-five pocket-sized war machines, including a Clothespin Shooter, a Hanger Slingshot, a Paper-Clip Trebuchet, and Shoelace Darts.

~Camille Perri

Topics: Austin Author Constructing Darts Destruction Fully Guide Himself Illustrated Including John Machines Mass Mass Destruction Mini Shooter Thirty-Five War Warfare Weapons

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