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“How does he love me?
With adoration, with fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.”
― Twelfth Night
With adoration, with fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.”
― Twelfth Night
“At a conference of sociologists in America in 1977, love was defined as "the cognitive-affective state characterized by intrusive and obsessive fantasizing concerning reciprocity of amorant feelings by the object of the amorance." That is jargon - the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement - and it is one of the great curses of modern English.”
― The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
― The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
“Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.”
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“God abhors a naked singularity.”
― A Brief History of Time
― A Brief History of Time
“The upshot of all this is that we live in a universe whose age we can't quite compute, surrounded by stars whose distances we don't altogether know, filled with matter we can't identify, operating in conformance with physical laws whose properties we don’t truly understand.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
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