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"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end."
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"Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet."
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"All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead."
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."
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"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."
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"Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end."
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"Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62."
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"A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines."
Books
"I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses."
Beginning
"Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call."
Media
"Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper."
Media
"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."
Communication
"If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked."
Media
"Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives."
Will
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