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Typography exists to honor content.


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By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.



Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.



Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.

Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.



Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.



Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.



Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.



Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.



By all means break the rules.

By all means break the rules.



The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world and our relations with the world.



When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.

When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.





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God is dead and I am his replacement.

God is dead and I am his replacement.




Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.



I think if we had another set of policies for - not the crisis years, but after that, that we might be growing faster. But we didn't. And some of that was Republicans' [fault], by the way.

I think if we had another set of policies for - not the crisis years, but after that, that we might be growing faster. But we didn't. And some of that was Republicans' [fault], by the way.



Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.

Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.



Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.

Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.



If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.



If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.

If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.



Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.

Enter into the promises of God. It is your inheritance. You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.



When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.




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