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Owls are one of the only birds
who can see the color blue.
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The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street
were named after Bert the cop and
Ernie the taxi driver
in Frank Capra's Christmas film, "Its A Wonderful Life".
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The longest word in the English language,
according to the Oxford
English Dictionary,
is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
The only other word with the same amount of letters is
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses,
it’s plural.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt."
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Most Americans' car horns beep in the key of F.
The housefly hums in the middle octave, key of F.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without
repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
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"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.
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The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz"
was thought up when the creator, Frank
Baum,
looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z,
hence "Oz."
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Jarod Hensel
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Tim Christensen
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Bill "Pappy" Sedgeman
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Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves
when they rode past their king. This custom has become
the modern military salute.
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Wallace Condon
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It's none of their business that you have to learn to write.
Let them think you were born
that way.
Ernest Hemingway
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"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
He exists as certainly as love
and generosity and devotion exist,
and you know that they abound and give to
your life its highest beauty and joy.
Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus."
Francis Pharcellus Church
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Taylor Graham
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A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can’t louse it up.
(Author Unknown)
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"I am doing nothing and thinking about the landlady.
Do I have the talent to compare with
our modern Russian writers?"
Leo Tolstoy
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Hatch Graham
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Men of genius do not excel in any profession
because they labour
in it,
but they labour in it because they excel.
Hazlett
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Believe in yourself and what others think won’t matter.
Emerson
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What thou thyself hatest, do to no other man.
Tobit, IV.C. 180 B.C.
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Vangie Schumann
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There is a fountain of youth:
it is your mind, your talents,
the creativity you bring to your life
and the lives of people you love.
When you learn to tap this source,
you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren
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J. Lynn o'Flaherty
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If you can't annoy somebody,
there's little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis
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Once the grammar has been learned,
writing is simply talking on paper
and in time learning what not to say.
Beryl Bainbridge
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There are only four words in the English
language which end in "-dous":
tremendous, horrendous,
stupendous, and hazardous.
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The verb "cleave" is the only English word with two synonyms
which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
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The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet
that does not appear in the
name of any of the United States.
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No word in the English language
rhymes with orange, month, silver, and purple.
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You can only smell 1/20th as well as a dog.
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Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.
Oren Arnold
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There is no ideal Christmas;
only the Christmas you decide to make
as a reflection of your
values, desires, affections, traditions.
Bill McKibben
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Once again, we come to the holiday season,
a deeply religious time that each of us observes,
in our own way,
by going to the mall of our choice.
Dave Barry
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Donald R. Anderson
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A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons
must think that
whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
All things have been given to us
for a purpose,
and an artist must feel this more intensely.
All that happens to us,
including our humiliations,
our misfortunes, our embarrassments,
all
is given to us as raw material, as clay,
so that we may shape our art.
Jorge Luis Borges,
Twenty Conversations with Borges,
Including a Selection of Poems:
Interviews by Roberto Alifano
1981–1983 (1984)
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Stephen M. Wilson
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It is by sitting down to write every morning that one becomes a writer.
Gerald Brenan
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Marie J. Ross
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There are so many different kinds of writing
and so many ways to work
that the only rule is this:
do what works.
Almost everything has been
tried
and found to succeed for somebody.
The methods,
even the ideas of successful writers
contradict each other in a most heartening way,
and the only element I find common
to all successful writers is persistence,
an overwhelming determination to succeed.
Sophy Burnham
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Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book
in every Dewey-decimal
category.
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Dr. Jf (Jose) Cantu
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Christmas is for children.
But it is for grownups too.
Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare,
it is a period of necessary defrosting
of chill and hide-bound hearts.
Lenora Mattingly Weber
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Malen Stroh
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A dramatist is a congenital eavesdropper
with the instincts of a Peeping Tom.
Kenneth Tynan
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Ann Edelstein
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Technique alone is never enough.
You have to have passion.
Technique
alone is just an embroidered potholder.
Raymond Chandler
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
Plato
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Clarissa Lule and Kip Taser
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Without music, life would be an error.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sarah Moschella
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And in the end,
the love you take
is equal to the love you make.
The Beatles
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Jarod Hensel
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I've never known a musician who regretted being one.
Whatever deceptions life may have
in store for you,
music itself is not going to let you down.
Virgil Thomson
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Where words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Andersen
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D.B. Pacini
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Key
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The thing about good music is this;
if you were to take out all the lyrics in a song,
you'll still know what the song's about.
Jimi Hendrix
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If youre lucky enough to be different from everybody else, don't change.
Taylor Swift
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I wish every mom and dad
would make this speech to their teenagers:
Kids, be free,
be whatever you are,
do whatever you want to do,
just as long as you don't hurt anybody.
And remember kids, I am you friend.'"
From the musical Hair.
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Festina lente.
(Greek: Make haste slowly.)
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The secret of good writing
is to say an old thing in a new way
or to say a new thing in an old way.
Richard Harding Davis
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