Adults get more confused by social worker jargon. Unlike children, they are also less likely to see two sides of an argument,… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
“All this is nothing better than the jargon of a conjuror, who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope,… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins Copy Share Image
It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief;… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
There is a triple layer of jargon when writing about climate change. You have the scientists, who are very cautious now because… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Only perhaps in the United States, which alone of countries can do without governing,every man being at least able to live, and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
I know this is economic jargon, but essentially, if you bring more women to the job market, you create value, it makes… — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
In a dynamical system, or a massively complex dynamical system such as we live in, when there is a moment of bifurcation,… — Ralph Abraham Copy Share Image
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's… — Richard Rosen Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
To me the gospel is not a great mass of theological jargon. It is a simple and beautiful and logical thing, with… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon… — Barry Ritholtz Copy Share Image
It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I… — Kelly McCreary Copy Share Image
“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
We can't really do any improv on 'The Big Bang' because we don't understand a lot of what the dialogue means to… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
When it comes to scientific matters the ready talkers simply run riot. There are a lot of pseudo-scientists who with a little… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction… — Diane Coyle Copy Share Image
For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life,… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
It's been great, I have to dig deep for really raw emotions and at the same time I have to use my… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
“In my earliest days of teaching I would sometimes hide behind jargon this way, learning quickly that a crowd of syllables could… — Mia Alvar Copy Share Image
My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Men love jargon. It is so palpable, tangible, visible, audible; it makes so obvious what one has learned; it satisfies the craving… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
... the thing that's happening today vis-á-vis computer imaging, vis-á-vis alteration, is that it no longer needs to be based on the… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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