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|14 = '''Writing is one of the most effective ways to develop thinking.'''<br />
|14 = '''Writing is one of the most effective ways to develop thinking.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Syrene Forsman, ''Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think''</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Syrene Forsman, ''Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think''</cite>
|15 = '''[[Writing]], the painful process of transforming three-dimensional, parallel-processed experience into two-dimensional, linear narrative.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">—  Susan Hockfield (neuroscientist)</cite>
|16 = '''Do not [[writing|write]] merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.'''<br />
|16 = '''Do not [[writing|write]] merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)</cite>
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|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) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write'']</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— George Orwell (1903–1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write'']</cite>
|25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br />
|25 = '''That which we 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 [[Math|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 [[Math|mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite>
|26 = '''I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.'''<br />
|26 = '''I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.'''<br />

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