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To assume is to presume.
To be called one thing, is oftentimes to be another.
Really?"
"No. I'm being ironic. Or is it sarcastic? I can never remember."
"Irony's cleverer, so you're probably being sarcastic.
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.
Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.
It may be meaningless, but at least it's a gesture.
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.
-at least in the collective mind of the Society.
Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
An ounce of convention is worth a pound of explanation.
To be or not to be; ay, there's the point',
Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.
I was ... labelled as an advocate because ... I measured something.
I like being misunderstood.
Over and out." "You obviously-- E.l. James
Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!
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?
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.
Defining yourself in opposition to something is still being anaclitic on that thing, isn't it?
How delicately language skirts the issue. How meaningless it is.
Exaggeration is the octopus of the English language
Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead?
icon, if you could even call it an icon, seemed to be
That's bollocks,' said Owen's voice over the loudspeakers.
'That a medical term?' asked Jack.
'It is when I use it.
Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing
I've got to be sensible sometimes.-- T-Pain
You live for pretentious metaphors.
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.
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.
In all seriousness, she said, If a phantom has an orgasm, is it a phantasm?
Real. Does that make me imaginary?
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.
Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language.
You may not assume
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.
Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
A eugoogoolizer ... one who speaks at funerals ... Or did you think I was too stupid to know what a eugoogooly was?
I honestly actually hate you.
Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.
Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion.
If you label me, you negate me?
Definitions only belong to those who need them.
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
Do I know what rhetorical means?Rhetorical-- Homer
Whatever ought to be, can be.-- James Rouse
Indeed? Pardon me for not listening further but I am really on an urgent errand.
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
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.
It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption
Wikipedia represents a belief in the supremacy of reason and goodness of others.
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character ...
I can assume I know what 'asshole' means
Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.
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.
Human intellect is incurably abstract.
nonsense can also be real
Being is like pretending.
The vague is the false.
Ah, yes. Fine. A lovely sounding word that means absolutely nothing.
Confusion is the starting of clarity
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
The unnamed should not be mistaken for the nonexistent.
sometimes it is necessary for us all to pretend together that language can really mean.
She means everything literally. Don't kid yourself about that lady. She means everything literally.
Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.
Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.
Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.
Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive
I believe this is your facade.
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.
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.
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
I suppose one must be serious sometimes.
Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.
I'm known for my slightly inappropriate remarks.
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?
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.
Irony serves as an alibi for a fetish.
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.
Pedantry is paraded knowledge.
But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.
Are you gay, Mr. Grey?
[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.
What is apparent is not always what is true.
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
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,
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Explanation is a well-dressed error.
I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else ... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.
It is always easy to question, to allege; the real job is to actually understand, read between the lines.