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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
- 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
- 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
- Speech is not a means in the service of an external end. It contains its own rule of usage, ethics, and view… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping… — Edward Sapir