Punctuation is biological. It ...

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.
 Muriel Rukeyser

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
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We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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