If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.

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"If it gets to conference, this bill is dead because we allow the opponents of reform to write it in the House, " Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Connecticut, said on ABC's "This Week".

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The result is that historians in most Arab countries are more like the court chroniclers of long-dead dynasties, and the hollow or distorted history they write and teach reflects the difference between intellectual and government employee.

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"If you're going to write to a formula of some kind the writing is dead, which we know by having seen it so often, " Lessing says.

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