"Do not put statements in the negative form.……" — William Safire

"Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."

— William Safire

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More Accession Quotes

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All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession… — Thomas Jefferson
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of… — Edward Gibbon
To reporters the day after his accession to the presidency, April 13, 1945: When they told me yesterday what had… — Harry S. Truman
Canada has always been a strong supporter of Chinas accession to the WTO... We look forward to playing a constructive… — Pierre Pettigrew
Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when… — Henry David Thoreau
We're working on accession to the WTO very actively. We still have several countries with which we need to conclude… — Nursultan Nazarbayev
I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war… — Emma Thompson
After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal. — Anibal Cavaco Silva
The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il… — Elliott Abrams
The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U.… — Ali Babacan
Western Europe GDP per capita - not taking into account the new accession counties - was lower in 2001 relative… — John Hutton
In central Colorado the Continental Divide is a wilderness of desolate peaks that rise far above the timber line into… — John Wesley Powell

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