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Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.


John Green


#correcting #function #grammar #grammar-nazi #vlogbrothers

Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love; every brave suffering for the right; every surrender of self to something higher than self; every loyalty to an ideal; every unselfish devotion to principle; every helpfulness to humanity; every act of self-control; every fine courage of the soul, undefeated by pretense or policy, but by being, doing, and living of good for the very good’s sake—that is spirituality.


David O. McKay


#courage

Now she understood a few things: that the American academy, which one might have thought the place to defend freedom of speech, had been the seat and soul of abrogating freedom of speech, if the first assault on its freedom can be said to be restricting, or handcuffing speech. The day she heard “redneck” on NPR, she turned NPR off, not because broadcasters were still using the term, but because she knew one day they would not be. In fact, she had a vision of the quiet moment backstage at a Boston studio when a good, surprised correspondent was let go for saying “redneck” the last time it would be said.


Padgett Powell


#political-correctness #truth #freedom

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.


Richard Stallman


#governments #human #human rights #pressured #rights

I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.


Jimmy Swaggart


#absolute #amazed #around #asinine #correct

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.


Publilius Syrus


#corrects #errors #his #man #others

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.


Genevieve Gorder


#come #contractors #correctly #doing #done

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.


George Orwell


#political-correctness #enemy

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.


Laurence J. Peter


#correct #enables #faults #our #parents

Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.


William Petty


#candid #chance #correction #etc #happening