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• Rules for Writers: Avoid run-on sentences they are hard to read.
  Don't use no double negatives. Use the semicolon properly, always use it where it is appropriate...
• Avoid commas, that are not necessary.
• /earth is 98% full ... please delete any un-necessary people.
• It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• Syllables govern the world. -- John Selden (1584-1654) -- Powe
• In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.
  -- Kathleen Norri...
• Paul: Good way to avoid frostbite, folks, put your hands between your buttocks.
  That's nature's pocket....
• The difference between sentiment and sentimentality is easy to see.
  When you avoid killing somebody's pet on the glazeway, that's sentiment....
• One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
  -- Bertrand Russell...