"If you cannot be the master of your……" — Richard Mitchell
"If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be."
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19 Quotes by Richard Mitchell
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- Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar,…
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- An education that does not teach clear, coherent writing cannot provide our world with thoughtful adults; it gives us instead,…
- Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
- If you should prefer to understand that children are those human beings who have not yet found the grasp of…
- Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.
- The feelings, sentiments, values and responses of our children, or of any citizen, are none of the government's damned business.…
- Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the…
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