Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
“We may be done with the past but the past is not done with us. Show more Show less” — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity. — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
