"Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth."

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Anna Brownell Jameson

#Language Quotes #Accuracy Quotes

“In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.”
“It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels. We don't want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves.”
“Whether he gets hit early or in the middle or late, he gets in his seven innings it seems like every time. There are also great defensive plays made behind him and it's not a coincidence. Guys are in the game. He works quick.”
“Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.”
“You didnâ€™t tell me she was so soft on the eyes,â€ he said to Patch, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. He spoke with a heavy Irish accent. â€œI didnâ€™t tell her how hard you are on them either,â€ Patch returned, his mouth at the relaxed stage just before a grin.”
“Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.”
“The really tough choices...don't center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted in one of our basic, core values.”
“I was so thrilled I attempted to mount my television”

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