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The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time QUOTES

The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time QUOTES

1 " As human beings, how do we choose to react in that instant when someone walks toward us, smiles, and begins to speak? "

― Jeff Deck , The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

2 " The standard clauses of the American dream only included two weeks of vacation a year. "

― Jeff Deck , The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

3 " She described to us six lanes' worth of unadulterated fear, populated exclusively by motorists whose driving education had been paid for by the blood of pedestrians. "

― Jeff Deck , The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

4 " We’re surrounded by typos. "

― Jeff Deck , The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

5 " To me, the iniquity inherent in typos was as plain as a swath cut through virgin forest, or dog feces upon a white beach. "

― Jeff Deck , The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

6 " The world needed changing - that I knew. Global warming threatened to give us all a lethal tan; war and poverty decimated whole nations; crops worldwide were shriveling; even our brethren beasts menaced us with their monkey pox and bird flu and mad cow disease. "

― Jeff Deck , The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

7 " After graduating, I'd moved to the Washington D.C. area to see what I could do with the skills I'd picked up from a creative writing degree. The chief export of the nation's capital is, of course, paper work, so I reckoned I could land some kind of writing or editing position at one of the many nonprofits and associations in the area. "

― Jeff Deck , The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

8 " Consider this argument another wedge served from the malodorous pie known as "My way is Right," the dessert of choice for politicians, religious leaders, and warring pastry chefs. "

― Jeff Deck , The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

9 " My typo-sensitivity has no off-switch. "

― Jeff Deck , The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

10 " Prepare yourself for transpositions! "

― Jeff Deck , The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time

11 " Somebody needs to fix America. "

― Jeff Deck , The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time