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  • Omit the non-essential. -- Per Mollerup
  • Omit needless words. -- William Strunk, Jr.
  • Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • ...Omit nothing which can advance his work, and not blame others for the delay. -- Vincent de Paul
  • Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin. -- George Herbert
  • Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute. -- Jeff Smith
  • Don't be a cynic, and bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. Set down nothing that will help somebody. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol. -- Bobby Darin
  • General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others. -- Mason Cooley
  • We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth. -- Joanna Southcott
  • Though pundits and politicians, weary of the story, are happy to omit facts about voting systems and their private contractors running our public elections, such omissions impair voters and democracy itself. -- Mimi Kennedy
  • If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction. -- Isabel Allende
  • You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed. -- Oliver Stone
  • We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word. -- Origen
  • The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment. -- William Jennings Bryan
  • There is but one art, to omit. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • I will omit but I will not distort. -- Cleveland Amory
  • He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher. -- Otto Neurath
  • Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known. -- John Ruskin
  • It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it. -- Ann Beattie
  • There are always challenges with books , deciding what to include and what to omit. -- Patricia Leavy
  • My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage. -- Dieter Rams
  • Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit. -- Shaun McNiff
  • One of the most significant design principles is to omit the unimportant in order to emphasize the important. -- Dieter Rams
  • Reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit. -- Barbara Ess
  • What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. -- Simone de Beauvoir
  • Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible. -- John Desmond Bernal
  • Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light. -- Isaac Watts
  • You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood -- Ernest Hemingway
  • A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic. -- Aristotle
  • Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating. -- James Beard
  • I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop. -- William Shakespeare
  • To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice. -- David Dudley Field II
  • Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • The United States, which would live on Christian principles with all of the peoples of the world, cannot omit a fair deal for its own Indian citizens. -- Harry S. Truman
  • It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure. -- John Calvin
  • In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack. -- Samuel Johnson
  • If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art. -- Robert Schumann
  • Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex. -- N. T. Wright
  • It is an art of no little importance to administer medicines properly: but, it is an art of much greater and more difficult acquisition to know when to suspend or altogether to omit them. -- Philippe Pinel
  • There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
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