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When infuriated by an outrageous column, do not be suckered into responding with an abusive e-mail. Pundits so targeted thumb through these red-faced electronic missives with delight, saying 'Hah! Got to 'em.'


William Safire

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STEVE LARGENT It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
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RICK RIORDAN Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ...
RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN Assuming the survey results are accurate, this indicates that many companies do not yet recognize e-...
MARK LEVITT It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an elec...
MIKE ROYKO I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
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KAREN BENDER A lot of times, I faced bullies - or the 'big dogs' at school. What I wanted 'Red Rising...
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WENDY LIEBMAN Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
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GORDON KORMAN I got into an argument with my original publisher. They wanted me to do 'Kitty' and nothing ...
CARRIE VAUGHN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA There's a big gap between 'Click the link to send an e-mail to your congressman' and ...
BILLY PARISH I just got an e-mail from one woman who said she wrote her boyfriend an entire love letter just with...
LORY ZIMBALATTI I got an e-mail on my business account saying that my password had been changed and my account had b...
JOY MILLS I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
KATE WINSLET We've been monitoring the online bulletin boards and responding with e-mail messages. But, to be hon...
MARCUS COURTNEY A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just fin...
JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a ...
ELON MUSK I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it...
FERDINAND MOUNT I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, compli...
B. D. WONG Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.
KEANU REEVES sorry or pleased that as far as I'm aware, I have not received an e-mail saying 'I love you.'
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FRED RICA But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as...
DAN STEVENS If an early infectee had an e-mail list with reporters at all the major news services, that would st...
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ALFIE ALLEN I don't know what the problem with Capitol is. Some one's got to wake 'em up. Prod '...
LES BAXTER You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, &...
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TIM DUNCAN The important thing, once you get 'em laughing, is to keep 'em laughing until you're thr...
HAL ROACH I'm predicting that we'll finally have a computer will search my e-mail automatically and de...
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CATERINA FAKE The IT department may be living in an older world where they think an automation deletion policy is ...
NICK MEHTA Not a day goes by when we're not grateful to see that viewers seem to be responding.
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RICHARD SIMMONS My childhood ambition was to become a Tooth Fairy. And I do talk about that in my book 'Is You O...
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CARL BRIZZI If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your o...
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TOM FORD I had an interesting moment with 'Wonder Woman' where, when I first thought about doing '...
PATTY JENKINS Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
TRE COOL When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really m...
LORDE I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.
DAVID KARP These poll results underscore the growing importance of the Internet as a sales channel. For most co...
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JOSH RADNOR With respect to potential computer intrusion by hostile actors, we did not find direct evidence that...
JAMES COMEY I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any...
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WILLIAM LAUD The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
WILLIAM BLIGH I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER