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Two weeks ago we celebrated the highest ever sale in the Guardian's 184-year history. Seven days later we broke that record again. The feedback on the new paper from readers and advertisers has been overwhelmingly positive.


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GARY F EVANS... The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress.
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GARY F EVANS... The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS [Because advertisements generally cost less in tabloids than in broadsheets, the paper has focused o...
CAROLYN MCCALL Do not speak ill of the dead.
THE SEVEN SAGES I am quite sane, according to my three distinct personalities and my seven passive ones.
THE PAPER DOLL In the morning when I wake
And the sun is coming through,
Oh, you fill my lungs with sweet...
THE PAPER KITES So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It took us about two weeks and 19 jumps before we were able to get to the point where we broke the r...
LARRY HENDERSON The response has been overwhelmingly positive.
BOB DENHAM To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON We've been open two weeks, and the response has been very positive.
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ARNIE BERMAN We strongly suspect the Tigers because he had threats from the LTTE. Two weeks ago, too, we arrested...
DAYA RATNAYAKE Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com...
NICK HORNBY He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.'
I watched him turn away and gather the clothes...
ALISON GOODMAN My wife and I don't consider ourselves just the owners of the railroad. We consider ourselves guardi...
AL HARPER The last year has been phenomenal in terms of adoption, demand and the feedback we receive from a gr...
CHRIS BEARD Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly ...
JOHN BROWN GORDON God knows there has been a lot we could have done in the last six weeks. That tends to get written i...
LORNE MICHAELS (The) degree earned online equals that (of a degree earned) on campus. The feedback that I hear from...
CRYSTAL RILEY I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW History has been the history of warfare.
GODFREY REGGIO If you've never been to the Paper Boat, we have over 100 artists' work on sale in the store.
FAYTHE LEVINE The feedback we get from employees has been great.
LINDA KANAMINE We have been getting positive feedback from sponsors, partners, students and Capstone International.
ISA VICE PRESIDENT SARI FAIZAH Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
ODO SIMON AGBO She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
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BOB ARUM The Scottish sun, shocked by having its usual cloudy underpinnings stripped away, shone feverishly, ...
STUART HADDON Two years ago we started seven freshmen, and we don't have any freshmen starting this year.
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DEBASISH MRIDHA What I'm hearing is the decision concerning my position was made before yesterday (Thursday). I was ...
LINDA HUBER Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD These young ones. They do not understand. There are so few of us left who remember how destructive r...
CONNILYN COSSETTE When I first got here two and a half years ago, if you would have taken that team and plugged it int...
ARTHUR ALBIERO We just can't seem to put two positive, consistent games together this year. Hopefully, we can chang...
DIRK BESKO We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL We had very positive feedback about having the event later in the day. Students said it created more...
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ROBERT WARZYCHA The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n...
, IN THE NEW REPUBLIC We're not continuing right now while we evaluate. We're reviewing feedback we've received — most of...
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DAWN CARR You can get all these bonds on sale later in the year.
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TERENCE T. GORSKI Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... We expect the BMW Group to remain on growth course in the financial year 2006. Our aim is to increas...
HELMUT PANKE There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
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CATHY TAMRAZ Our association with Berkshire Hathaway has already generated considerable excitement in the marketp...
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DAVID OKEYO Presidents make history. I'm just a tool of history.
CHRIS WEITZ Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
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BILL SELF ...There is no end to the making and selling of things there is no end to the making and selling of ...
GEORGE SAUNDERS We've always been on the doorstep and I think this year is our year to prove that we are up in that ...
CYNDY KENYON But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost i...
J.D. SALINGER I put it on the table two weeks ago to alleviate going through this every year.
ALAN OATSVALL Just for the record, we never broke up. We just took a fourtee year vacation.
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TIM COWLISHAW As of May when we broke the Marseilles-Carthage record, we held the six fastest outright passage rec...
STEVE FOSSETT We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Basically the business people at The New York Times also believe that the prestige of the paper and ...
WARREN HOGE It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH The last chapter in 'Alice in Worcestershire' is called 'Writing the book'.
I started to write ...
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CAROLYN KENMORE Our masks, always in peril of smearing or cracking, in need of continuous check in the mirror or sil...
CAROLYN KIZER We cannot ensure that women will be free of discrimination in the workplace and everywhere as long a...
CAROLYN MALONEY Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World cou...
CAROLYN MURPHY My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympatheti...
CAROLYN MACKLER Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible ...
CAROLYN SEE The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet....
CAROLYN MURPHY In the same way that the women's movement of the seventies and eighties brought rape and incest into...
CAROLYN SPRING And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you ...
CAROLYN SPRING Bemoaning my existence wasn’t changing my existence.
CAROLYN SPRING As a child, the best way to survive was to be still, to submit—to do nothing that might incur furt...
CAROLYN SPRING To be loved and to love, takes courage. To be fully seen is incredibly rare and breathtaking. We low...
CAROLYN RIKER Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
CAROLYN SEE Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, bu...
CAROLYN CHUTE I had dreamed of visiting Bali for many years and because I had an extended family of Balinese frien...
CAROLYN MURPHY My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of U...
CAROLYN MURPHY I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of po...
CAROLYN KIZER A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
CAROLYN WELLS There is a slave trade still in this country—yes, the real and horrific sex and human trafficking ...
CAROLYN SPRING It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that i...
CAROLYN SPRING I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as wor...
CAROLYN WELLS I was born on the night of Samhain, when the barrier between the worlds is whisper-thin and when mag...
CAROLYN MACCULLOUGH You see airbrushed images of me, but I know the person who's walking barefoot, dodging dog poo i...
CAROLYN MURPHY With them having to sit the bench..., it took us completely out of our game.
CAROLYN WRIGHT I never relaxed because I know they're the kind of team that's going to keep fighting.
CAROLYN WRIGHT We talked about it during the week and right before the game. We stressed that we wanted to win this...
CAROLYN WRIGHT We're Utah. We'll be running 90-95 percent (capacity).
CAROLYN WRIGHT I felt real good about their effort tonight.
CAROLYN WRIGHT People have actually stood in line at the supermarkets to vote and sign to vote. We now know we are ...
CAROLYN WRIGHT They're not one of those teams who will sit down to a spanking. They will play you to the end.
CAROLYN WRIGHT We're excited to host. It's big to have that home court advantage because more of your fans will com...
CAROLYN WRIGHT With the big lead, I wasn't comfortable. I knew they (Sidney Lanier) would keep on fighting. They wa...
CAROLYN WRIGHT