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Ordinary language is all right.

One could divide humanity into two classes:
those who master a metaphor, and those who hold by a formula.
Those with a bent for both are too few, they do not comprise a class.

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10 Jan '13 01:00:07 AM

The working conditions of college faculty are ultimately the learning conditions for college students.

10 Jan '13 12:02:43 AM

Whenever an ethicist ends his list of theoretical options with 'virtue ethics, feminist ethics', I know I'm not dealing with a serious person.

10 Jan '13 12:01:00 AM

The difference between not knowing you're getting crumbs all over yourself and really not knowing you're getting crumbs all over yourself.

8 Jan '13 10:26:09 AM

Because of a maxim’s brevity and by its characteristic manner of formulation, it will seem compressed. It asserts or draws connections between its elements in ways which cannot falsify their possible relationships, but which are not likely to be obvious upon first thought of each of the elements in isolation or in its characteristic deployment apart from the maxim. (The aspect of defamiliarization.) Often the perception of the truth of a maxim will amount to a recognition that its elements do admit of the possibility of combination indicated in the maxim.

7 Jan '13 12:13:52 PM

Make us take your word for it.

7 Jan '13 12:11:54 PM

Don't dress it up.

7 Jan '13 12:06:14 PM

Add a stage direction to our script.

7 Jan '13 12:01:27 PM

Give them a moment to look down on someone.

7 Jan '13 11:56:27 AM

Give us misgivings.