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- My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is… — David Bohm
- I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the… — Geraldine Brooks
- As devices multiply and usage changes (many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine), it becomes more and more… — Larry Page
- Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I… — Elmore Leonard
- Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church,… — Origen
- The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its… — Mary Hunter Austin
- Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. — Bill Bryson
- Those who sniff decay in every shift of sense or alteration of usage do the language no service. Too often for such… — Bill Bryson
- The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor,… — Noam Chomsky
- Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who… — Eckhart Tolle