The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-George Orwell
The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial... he cannot go along with currents and trends.
-Alfred North Whitehead
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
-Alfred North Whitehead
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
-Peter McWilliams
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