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I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.
Daniel Pinkwater
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.
George Tenet
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
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I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one.
Daniel Pinkwater 
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Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.
George Tenet
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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
Dean Koontz
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In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.
Juan Goytisolo
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In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use.
Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how I started doing children's books.
Dick Bruna
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I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.
Jim Jarmusch
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I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did.
William Devane
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