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Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.
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Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every…
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America has a way of inventing tradition each morning and erasing the past by nightfall, and thehold of ancient custom is endangered…
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In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward…
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At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when…
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God's greatest blessing is children. The only problem is that you have to support them. It's a problem, not a disadvantage.
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A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to…
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It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or…
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Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from…
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Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of…
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Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning…
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A second-century rabbi said that if 999 angels gave a bad account of a man and one angel reported favorably, God would…
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Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is…
— Edwin H Friedman
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Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language…
— Sven Birkerts
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Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a…
— Raymond Chandler
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Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,…
— John Searle
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Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with…
— James Lovelock
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Don't you hate code that's not properly indented? Making it [indenting] part of the syntax guarantees that all code is properly indented.
— Guido van Rossum
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I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find…
— Roger Caillois
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It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears…
— Unknown Author
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Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it…
— Wilson Follett
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What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure
— Aaron Betsky
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It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of…
— Richard K. Morgan
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