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"The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur." »Muriel Spark
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"A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people." »Charles W. Tobey
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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning." »Winston Churchill
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"Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed." »Guy Finley
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"Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others." »Anonymous
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"The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me." »Loren
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"strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath." »Oscar Levant
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"I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted-not my hand held by an old smoothie." »William Safire
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"I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught." »Georgia O'Keeffe
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"It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more." »Agnes Repplier
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"Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it." »Charles Krauthammer
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"When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generaous we can be toward others." »Eda LeShan
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"Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must live it to the full." »Muriel Spark
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"Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come." »Bruce Lee
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