#noun

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.' ↗

— William Safire

#american #american culture #compound #culture #device

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. ↗

— George Santayana

#deny #else #ignore #living #monstrous

Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

#bombing #country #determined #experience #hearts

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#correctly #excellent #grammar #like #pronounce

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#bad #bad news #best #best time #better

If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#just #pronounce #use #word #you

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#nouns #obsessed #very

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#announced #begin #classical #experiments #friends

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#crave #craving #follow #get #itself

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#cannot #denouncing #falsehood #truth #without