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The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

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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…
The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.
If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loud!
It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.
Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.
The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers…
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place,
The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing…
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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Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle… — Marie-Luise Gothein
What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an… — R. Buckminster Fuller
[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly… — Erwin Schrodinger
I believe in God. In fact, I believe in a personal God who acts in and interacts with the creation. I believe… — William Daniel Phillips
The universe exists under a reign of eternal law, surpassing the imperfect laws of human government. Such orderliness, such domination by law,… — John Andreas Widtsoe
Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness… — Albert Einstein
Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism… — Camille Paglia
A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of… — Albert Low
The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to… — Rudolf Arnheim
But it seems to me equally obvious that the orderliness is not all-pervasive. There are streaks of order to be found among… — Arthur David Ritchie
The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity. — William Strunk, Jr.
Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among… — Mahatma Gandhi

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