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- Well, Page, I do wish the Devil had old Cooke, for I am sure I never was so tired of an old… — Thomas Jefferson
- I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. — Jean Rostand
- In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction… — Don Henley
- This is revolution in reaction, as well as in radicalism, and Toryism speaking a jargon of law and order may often be… — Frank I. Cobb
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting… — Thomas Jefferson
- The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and… — Thomas Jefferson
- Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. — William Zinsser
- Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope,… — Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins
- Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright… — Eric Bentley
- In fast-moving, progress-conscious America, the consumer expects to be dizzied by progress. If he could completely understand advertising jargon he would be… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of… — Marjorie Garber
- The machine code of the genes is uncannily computer-like. Apart from differences in jargon, the pages of a molecular biology journal might… — Richard Dawkins