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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
- Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with… — James Lovelock
- And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and… — Jean M. Auel
- There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot,… — Dorothy Parker
- 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
- Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a… — Raymond Chandler
- 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
- 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