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  • I have somehow something like "influence" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • I have been for some time in Retirement, and shall not probably return again to public Life; yet my Anxiety for my Country, in these Times of Danger, makes me sometimes dabble a little in Politicks, and keep up a Correspondence with some Men upon the public Stage. -- George Mason
  • Truth is exact correspondence with reality. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • We would never comment on private correspondence. -- Prince Charles
  • I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness. -- Julian Clary
  • It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. -- Jacques Barzun
  • I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me. -- John Sherman Cooper
  • There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of. -- Joseph Butler
  • I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege. -- Bart Stupak
  • I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that. -- Elizabeth McGovern
  • State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones. -- Bill Dedman
  • I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger. -- Edmond About
  • Prior to email, our private correspondence was secured by a government institution called the postal service. Today, we trust AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, or Gmail with our private utterances. -- John Battelle
  • My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings. -- Leos Carax
  • I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well. -- Anne McCaffrey
  • I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all. -- Jessye Norman
  • The basic idea of email has remained essentially unchanged since the first networked message was sent in 1971. And while email is great for one-on-one, formal correspondence, there are far better tools for collaboration. -- Ryan Holmes
  • School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades. -- Amber Heard
  • With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session. -- Martin Van Buren
  • Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment. -- Albert J. Nock
  • Conditions were so hard. To send the news out, telex was the only means, but telex was very rare in Africa. So if somebody was flying to Europe, we gave him correspondence to send after he arrived. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration. -- Tino Sehgal
  • Justice Harry A. Blackmun, a quirky but pivotal member of the Supreme Court for 24 years, was a hoarder. He seems to have kept everything from his boyhood diaries to college correspondence to every scrap of paper that came his way on the Supreme Court. -- Cliff Sloan
  • We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment. We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them. -- James Laughlin
  • Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form - as the stuff of patterned artifice. -- Martin Amis
  • I've always found it best to have a routine. I go to my study at the same time every day and climb into my bay window. I may not be inspired every day, but on the days I am, I need to be in place to write. If I'm not particularly inspired, I'll revise or do research or correspondence. -- Diane Ackerman
  • I've had a lot of girls reach out to me about struggling with body image. I've only been able to write back to a few of them, but I've been able to write and have correspondence with a few of them and really talk about what I think they should do or if I think they should ask for help. -- Troian Bellisario
  • I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing. -- Josh Henderson
  • Never let your correspondence fall behind. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness -- Julian Clary
  • I'm reluctant to draw many conclusions from private correspondence leaked without permission. -- John I. Jenkins
  • No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence. -- Lord Acton
  • The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all. -- Megan McCafferty
  • I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence. -- Colin Dexter
  • He was one of those earnest, persevering dancers--the kind that have taken twelve correspondence lessons. -- P. G. Wodehouse
  • Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible. -- Prentice Mulford
  • Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Opened Christmas cards hum to me the hymn of love and teach me the sacrament of correspondence. -- Edward M Hays
  • People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
  • All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever. -- Ming-Dao Deng
  • Personally - I also continued my education while I was coaching, attending night school and summer school, taking correspondence courses, etc. -- LaVell Edwards
  • My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence. -- Marina Tsvetaeva
  • Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics. -- Eric Baum
  • A succubus on the set. Strike that, the health-conscious kid sister made it two"¦ succubuses. Succubusees? Succubi? Stupid Latin correspondence course. -- Jim Butcher
  • Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s. -- Stewart Brand
  • I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny. -- Nicolaas Bloembergen
  • There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer. -- Emily Carr
  • It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond. -- Charles Baudelaire
  • To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence. -- Joseph Glanvill
  • All the ancient churches were churches representative of spiritual things; the rites, and also the statutes, according to which their worship was established, consisted of pure correspondence. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
  • I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger. -- Edmond About
  • My most interesting correspondence is with my translators. I marvel at their sensitivity over certain passages that just anyone, even if he knows German well, would not appreciate. -- Heinrich Boll
  • The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship. -- Thomas Szasz
  • An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. -- H. P. Lovecraft
  • I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton. -- Charles Lamb
  • He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if ever, to be met with in his correspondence. -- Daniel Coit Gilman
  • I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well -- Anne McCaffrey
  • If you're working with a spreadsheet or a thread of correspondence or a set of data, I'm not sure you're doing your best work if you're doing it on an iPhone. -- Seth Godin
  • Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century. -- John Maxwell Hamilton
  • Did you see my ninja move?That was fast, right?" "You are not a ninja, Shane." "I've watched all the movies. I just haven't gotten the certificate from the correspondence course yet. -- Rachel Caine
  • Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another. -- George Eliot
  • Belshazzar had a letter,-- He never had but one; Belshazzar's correspondence Concluded and begun In that immortal copy The conscience of us all Can read without its glasses On revelation's wall. -- Emily Dickinson
  • I didn't drop out of school, I placed out of it. I took correspondence courses and ended up graduating early. I did everything I could to get the hell out of there. -- Amber Heard
  • Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines as shortest lines as well as their relations of intersection. -- Hans Reichenbach
  • A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity. -- Charles Lamb
  • I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature... I've had enough of journos. -- Brooke Fraser
  • Yes, librarians use punctuation marks to make little emoticons, smiley and frowny faces in their correspondence, but if there were one for an ironic wink, or a sarcastic lip curl, they'd wear it out. -- Marilyn Johnson
  • A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence. -- Shirley Hazzard
  • His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death. -- Evelyn Waugh
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