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  • nedzeppelin1453
    Member
    • Feb 2019
    • 16

    #286
    Originally posted by gavinl
    Thanks, but that wasn't it. I recall it had a hyphenated word.
    Maybe this one:

    "Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head."

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    • gavinl
      Member
      • Feb 2019
      • 35

      #287
      Yes that was it NedZeppelin...i have subsequently had the quote again and got it quite easily this time...don't know why it stumped me so badly the first time! Thanks for posting.

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      • Deanna48
        Member
        • Feb 2019
        • 142

        #288
        Kin Hubbard -- Politics makes strange postmasters.

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        • Fudi
          Member
          • Apr 2018
          • 164

          #289
          "A couple of hours of practice is worth ten sloppy rounds. "
          — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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          • Deanna48
            Member
            • Feb 2019
            • 142

            #290
            John Milton -- "Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."
            I've had this one several times and it always takes me forever!

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            • Fudi
              Member
              • Apr 2018
              • 164

              #291
              "The wildest colts make the best horses. "
              — Plutarch

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              • Fudi
                Member
                • Apr 2018
                • 164

                #292
                Check out #14 on this forum ... Ben seemed to have a lot to say about this topic.

                "Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy."
                — Benjamin Franklin

                Awfully hard this with this version too, I think.

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                • Fudi
                  Member
                  • Apr 2018
                  • 164

                  #293
                  Pop culture's gotten much more disposable."
                  — "Weird Al" Yankovic

                  It's been around (this quote) for more than a year and the recordholder, currently, is maradnu at 62 seconds.

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                  • momn8r
                    Member
                    • Feb 2008
                    • 28

                    #294
                    Unattributed: Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them.

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                    • ernests
                      Member
                      • Nov 2013
                      • 8

                      #295
                      "Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning. "
                      — Douglas Horton

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                      • ernests
                        Member
                        • Nov 2013
                        • 8

                        #296
                        "Thy decay's still impregnate with divinity. "
                        — Lord Byron

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                        • Deanna48
                          Member
                          • Feb 2019
                          • 142

                          #297
                          Joan Baez -- "Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers."

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                          • Deanna48
                            Member
                            • Feb 2019
                            • 142

                            #298
                            Alan Watts -- "But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know."

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                            • Deanna48
                              Member
                              • Feb 2019
                              • 142

                              #299
                              Charles Baudelaire -- "Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!"

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                              • momn8r
                                Member
                                • Feb 2008
                                • 28

                                #300
                                "Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make."
                                — Abraham Cowley

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