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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

  • For most men, life is a search for the proper Manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

  • To justify God's ways to man.

  • The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

  • The clear and simple words of common usage are always better than those of erudition. The jargon of the philosophers not seldom conceals an absence of thought.

  • We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.

  • Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

  • Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

  • We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

  • The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.

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