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Empty your knapsack of all adjectives, adverbs and clauses that slo your stride and weaken your pace. Travel light. Remember the most memorable sentences in the English language are also the shortest: The King is dead and Jesus wept.

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Bill Moyers
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: June 5
Former White House Press Secretary
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