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Wisdom
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. -- William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.--- Mark Twain.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. -- Albert Einstein.
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann
It is impossible to disassociate language from science . . . To call forth a concept, a word is needed. -- Antoine Lavoisier
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. -- Samuel Johnson
A sentence should never be cruel and unusual. -- William C. Burton
Hard writing makes easy reading. -- An old adage.
The language of law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. -- Learned Hand.
What is the quality of your intent? -- Thurgood Marshall.
Clarity begins at home. -- Edie Schwager
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. -- Frederick Douglas
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. -- Ronald Reagan
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all. -- Winston Churchill.
Truth burns up error. -- Sojourner Truth
I believe more in the scissors than I do the pencil. -- Truman Capote.
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. -- William Safire
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No person learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. -- Sandra Day O'Connor
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.--- Mark Twain.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. -- Albert Einstein.
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -- Hans Hofmann
It is impossible to disassociate language from science . . . To call forth a concept, a word is needed. -- Antoine Lavoisier
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. -- Samuel Johnson
A sentence should never be cruel and unusual. -- William C. Burton
Hard writing makes easy reading. -- An old adage.
The language of law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. -- Learned Hand.
What is the quality of your intent? -- Thurgood Marshall.
Clarity begins at home. -- Edie Schwager
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done. -- Frederick Douglas
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. -- Ronald Reagan
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all. -- Winston Churchill.
Truth burns up error. -- Sojourner Truth
I believe more in the scissors than I do the pencil. -- Truman Capote.
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. -- William Safire
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No person learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. -- Sandra Day O'Connor
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