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Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

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Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.
To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leaders,…
We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that.
In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.
Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with…
Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount…
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.
Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this…
William F. Buckley, Jr. does not speak so much as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.
Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can…
Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and…

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Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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