William Shakespeare

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

English Playwright

Isabel Allende

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.

Chilean Writer

Jane Lindskold

Even after the text is written, there are a tremendous number of stages along the way to the finished book. If a publisher cares about the finished product, none of them will be omitted.

American Writer

Kwasi Kwarteng

Any book on empire will omit, by necessity, vast tracts of the imperial experience, and so critics can easily find facts and details to contradict an author's bold generalisations.

British Politician

Ernest Hemingway

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.

American Novelist

Svetlana Alexievich

I'm interested in the history of the soul: the everyday life of the soul, the things that the big picture of history usually omits - or disdains.

Belarusian Journalist

Henry David Thoreau

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

American Author

Mason Cooley

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

Marya Mannes

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

American Journalist

William Strunk, Jr.

Sometimes omitting is accidental, not noticing you've left someone or something out.

Unintentional Exclusion

Omit can be deliberate, choosing not to include something for a reason.

Intentional Exclusion

Omit details when you need to be brief and to the point.

Conciseness

Forgetting an action unintentionally is sometimes expressed as omitting.

Accidental Neglect

Deciding not to do something can be seen as omitting to act.

Choice of Action

Omit implies a missed duty or expected action.

Missed Obligation

 The business of money exchange had dubious ethical and legal associations, so the friendship of this powerful family was important. And the young heir to Medici power, Lorenzo, could not be omitted from this painting's composition. He appears to the left of the manger. This painting seems to say the Medici legacy, with its many healthy heirs,

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 the single singular nature of what they were witnessing and abandoning the original mission stayed with these whales for the next five hours now I'm going to share some of the footage that they took with you now while most of the more graphic footage has been omitted be

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 moving so that lion looking at the size of the mane is telling me to the young not well experienced and is trying to take over the responsibilities which are for the females normally lions are omitted when this kind of hands are taking place and that is what is maybe

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 Stories of everyday women whose stories have been knowingly omitted from our national and global histories. And oftentimes in museums, you see women represented by clothing or portraits or photography but impactful, life-changing stories from everyday women

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 jump them from other writers but I arrange them my own way I think this is mostly what we do our creativity comes from without not from within we are not self-made we are dependent on one another and omitting this to

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 Remarkably few. But she played a crucial role in every phase of the struggle, particularly by emphasizing literacy and education. She's been omitted, ignored, like so many other women who played critical roles

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 we stop correcting our mispronounced names. We ask fewer questions. We learn to say nothing and smile. We omit parts of our stories. We erase parts of ourselves. Our histories and present reality

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 Undercounting will introduce bias and erode the quality of our data infrastructure. Let's look at undercounts in the 2010 census. 16 million people were omitted in the final counts.

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 Walking down the street, what does the city you live in say to you? What symbols are present? Which histories are celebrated? And on the other hand, which ones are omitted?

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 Mass media has omitted the fact that Braddock is predominantly black. Our existence has been co-opted, silenced and erased. Fourth generation in a lineage of women,