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• It is by discourse that men associate; and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar.
  And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding....
• What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language?
  Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly....
• Acronyms: Tools for the profusion of confusion (TFTPOC)
• Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.
• All government,--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,--is founded on compromise and barter.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 169...
• So how DO they get the lead into the pencil?
• All roads do not lead to Rome. Slovenian Proverb
• Committees do harm merely by existing. -- Freeman Dyso
• Hackers do it with words.