Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.
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Accusations are useless.
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.
There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.
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 squirting out ink.
If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
A meaningless statement remains meaningless no matter how often it's heard.
The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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