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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite> | ||
|24 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a [[windowpane]].'''<br /> | |24 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a [[windowpane]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Orwell]] (1903-1950) | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Orwell]] (1903-1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm Source]</cite> | ||
|25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | |25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Pierre-Simon de Laplace]] (1749-1827), French [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Pierre-Simon de Laplace]] (1749-1827), French [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite> | ||
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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). Source.
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