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Virginia Woolf called letter-writing "the humane art, which owes its origins to the love of friends", and devoted a good deal of emotional energy to using it to maintain her friendships.
BBC News - Home 2012
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Residents in Pinehurst, N.C., Northfield, Minn., Cheraw, S.C., and the Venice section of Los Angeles have all organized letter-writing campaigns to fight post office plans to sell their New Deal-era post offices.
Post Office History for Sale Jennifer Levitz 2011
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The “feel” of e-mailing, or blog commenting for that matter, is much more like speech than is letter-writing, because reception and often response are near-immediate.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Caution About Sending E-Mails — and About Trust 2010
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Their energetic blogging and letter-writing campaigns, targeted at journalists, MPs, EU officials and regulators, distort the truth and misrepresent Phorm ` s technology.
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When corporations promote bogus science, conduct fake letter-writing campaigns, or promote weak and hypocritical “consumer protection” laws that exempt them from legal liabilities for their misdoings, there should be outrage, and legal action.
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In an unfinished memoir begun in 1939, Virginia Woolf observed that she had been "born of well-to-do parents, born into a very communicative, literate, letter-writing, visiting, articulate, late nineteenth-century world."
The Lives of A Novelist Mira Sethi 2011
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We should be proactive and mount a letter-writing campaign, so that this fate will not befall the host city for the 2012 Summer Games.
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If Oskar Werner's features recall those of his director, Jim's love of letter-writing reminds us that Mr. Truffaut himself adored writing—usually by hand—to friends and acquaintances alike.
For the Love of a Fickle Woman Peter Cowie 2012
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The result of a letter-writing campaign by Amnesty International, it led to a 15-year correspondence between the families that lasted until Harold died.
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Toss in a time-traveling Zac Efron and a letter-writing soldier, and you have the race for Best Male Performance at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards, airing this Sunday, June 6, at 9 p.m.
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