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Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would… — Anthony de Jasay
What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date. — Simon Wiesenthal
A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows — Mati Klarwein
Education today, in this particular social period, is assuming truly unlimited importance. And the increased emphasis on its practical value can be summed up in… — Maria Montessori
I feel it’s important to talk about the complex issues affecting us. And these are complex issues. I think it’s insulting to an audience to… — Asghar Farhadi
PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single… — Max Levchin
An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. — Robert Breault
My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin… — Elwyn Brooks White
We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a… — Charles Caleb Colton
Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences. — Ronald Reagan
Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews… — Fred Rodell
While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to… — Joseph Epstein
I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to… — Sarah Fielding
When finished writing a post, go back and add bullets, sub heads, spacing; eliminate long paragraphs or sentences. — Michael Hyatt
The age of 40 is not a death sentence. — George Foreman
Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a… — Deb Caletti
Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat… — Peter De Vries
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules… — Henry David Thoreau
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like… — E. M. Forster
The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before… — B.F. Skinner
Most men are rich in borrowed sufficiency: a man may very well say a good thing, give a good answer, cite a good sentence, without… — Michel de Montaigne
I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open… — Cynthia Ozick

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