This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Communists, socialists and fascists everywhere, from Mr. Obama upward, have taken to the global warming cause like a quack to colored water.… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
Men of Science would do well to talk plain English. The most abstruse questions can very well be discussed in our own… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
It is no exaggeration to describe plain English as a fundamental tool of government. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Mathematical knowledge is not-as all Cambridge men are surely aware-the result of any special gift. It is merely the development of those… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer. — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
What Women's Lib might achieve if their 'consciousness raising' - or in plain English, brainwashing- campaign succeeds is a society whose members… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
A word about 'plain English.' The phrase certainly shouldn't connote drab and dreary language. Actually, plain English is typically quite interesting to… — Bryan A. Garner Copy Share Image
What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness is the perfect companion to Mindfulness in Plain English. Written with the thoroughness and the masterful simplicity… — Larry Rosenberg Copy Share Image
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English. — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Taxing Women is a must-have primer for any woman who wants to understand how our current tax system affects her family's economic… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
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