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William Strunk, Jr. has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a…
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The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.
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If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
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It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
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Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
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The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers…
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A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
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The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,
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The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
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A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
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In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing…
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In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the…
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With one linear centimeter of your lower colon there lives and works more bacteria (about 100 billion) that all humans who have…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I…
— Ronald Reagan
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African-American women who develop breast cancer are more likely to die from the disease than White women of the same age. Survival…
— Frank C. Garland
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When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the…
— Eric Partridge
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Take care of your colon and your colon will take care of you.
— Travis Barker
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Is it a good hot dog? That’s all I want to know … I don’t think the personal health and purity of…
— Anthony Bourdain
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If I keep grinning maybe my inoperable colon cancer won't hurt so much.
— Tony Millionaire
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you…
— Wally Lamb
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So inane-I cause Colon Blow pain
— El-P
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I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!
— Edmond Rostand
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There are but a few blood purifiers and these are all in the body. We know them as the liver, kidneys, lungs,…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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