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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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That's what's so great about the Internet. It allows pompous blow-hards to connect with other pompous blow-hards in a vast circle-jerk of… — Bill Maher
We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The… — Billy Childish
I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world,… — Daryl Hall
His pomposity is overshadowed only by his rank stupidity — Ann Coulter
I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity. — Fiona Shaw
Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not. — Edwin Newman
Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk… — Henry Watson Fowler
I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I… — Charles Kimbrough
People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music. — Elvis Costello
I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that. — Billy Corgan
Liberals sit from this lofty perch of pomposity, but they are the champions of ignorance. They don't know what they're talking about. — Rush Limbaugh
All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people… — Stephen Hunt

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