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To assume is to presume.
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To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
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Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic.
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Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.
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Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
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(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.
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It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.
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The thoughtless habit of using the words "existence" and "exist" as designations for being is one more indication of our estrangement both from being and from a radical, forceful, and definite exegesis of being.
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-at least in the collective mind of the Society.
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Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.
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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
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Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
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An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
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To be or not to be; ay, there's the point',
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Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.
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I was ... labelled as an advocate because ... I measured something.
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I like being misunderstood.
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Over and out." "You obviously
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Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!
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You see, Adrian, we do many things. We assign meaning to some, and think of others as lacking it. But who's to tell when we're right - and when we're wrong?
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Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.
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Defining yourself in opposition to something is still being anaclitic on that thing, isn't it?
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How delicately language skirts the issue. How meaningless it is.
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Exaggeration is the octopus of the English language
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Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead?
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icon, if you could even call it an icon, seemed to be
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That's bollocks,' said Owen's voice over the loudspeakers.
'That a medical term?' asked Jack.
'It is when I use it.
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Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing
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I've got to be sensible sometimes.

-- T-Pain

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You live for pretentious metaphors.
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Among people who might be described as having at least a passing regard for the English language, there are few instances of usage that evoke a desire to mutilate more than the perceived misuse of literally.
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This, however, only shows that there is an ambiguity in the word is; a word which not only performs the function of the copula in affirmations, but has also a meaning of its own, in virtue of which it may itself be made the predicate of a proposition.
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In all seriousness, she said, If a phantom has an orgasm, is it a phantasm?
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Real. Does that make me imaginary?
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Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
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I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
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Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.
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You may not assume
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A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme is either modified or replaced by a better one, never abandoned with nothing left to take its place.
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Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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A eugoogoolizer ... one who speaks at funerals ... Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
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I honestly actually hate you.
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Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.
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Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.
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If you label me, you negate me?
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Definitions only belong to those who need them.
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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Do I know what rhetorical means?
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Whatever ought to be, can be.
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Indeed? Pardon me for not listening further but I am really on an urgent errand.
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I never pegged you for a fan of the obvious, sam", "i'm not, otherwise, i would've said, 'hey, shouldn't you be in school ?'", "touche
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Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.
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It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption
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Wikipedia represents a belief in the supremacy of reason and goodness of others.
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From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character ...
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I can assume I know what 'asshole' means
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Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
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You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.
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Human intellect is incurably abstract.
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nonsense can also be real
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Being is like pretending.
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The vague is the false.
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Ah, yes. Fine. A lovely sounding word that means absolutely nothing.
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Confusion is the starting of clarity
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A method involving apparent obscurity is surely justified when it is the clearest, the simplest, the only method possible of saying in full what the writer has to say
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The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.
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sometimes it is necessary for us all to pretend together that language can really mean.
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She means everything literally. Don't kid yourself about that lady. She means everything literally.
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Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.
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Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.
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Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.
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Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
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I believe this is your facade.
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Supposed to" is a lie. A fairy tale. It is the stealer of peace and productivity. It is the leading cause of Obsessive Comparison Disorder with everyone who "has it better.
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Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.
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We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
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I suppose one must be serious sometimes.
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Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
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Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
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The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.
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I'm known for my slightly inappropriate remarks.
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What about e-mail? It is e-mail, yes?" Morley asked, leaning even closer. "E-mail is a kind of electronic letter. It travels through the air." He seemed very smug that he knew that.
"Well, not exactly, and would you please either BACK OFF or go find a shower?
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The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
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Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.
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Irony serves as an alibi for a fetish.
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
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There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.
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Pedantry is paraded knowledge.
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But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
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Are you gay, Mr. Grey?
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[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.
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What is apparent is not always what is true.
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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
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Even if any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a terminology it must be a selection of reality; and to this extent it must function also as a deflection of reality,
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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
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Explanation is a well-dressed error.
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I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
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It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else ... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
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It is always easy to question, to allege; the real job is to actually understand, read between the lines.