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“Here we go,” Fergus said. “If this doesn’t work, it’s been a pleasure. And I almost mean that without sarcasm.” “We feel exactly the same about you,” Mari said.
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
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“A cardinal American virtue, 'ambition,' promotes a cardinal American vice, 'deviant behavior.”
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“Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.”
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“[F]or a social theorist ignorance is more excusable than vagueness. Other investigators can easily show I am wrong if I am sufficiently precise. They will have much more difficulty showing by investigation what, precisely, I mean if I am vague. I hope not to be forced to weasel out with 'But I didn’t really mean that.' Social theorists should prefer to be wrong rather than misunderstood. Being misunderstood shows sloppy theoretical work.”
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