Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill. — 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
