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Dick Cavett Quote: 'Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, ...'

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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.


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Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.


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I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
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Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.
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We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.


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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.


Milton Friedman
That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.


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I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.
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The status quo leads to self-destruction.


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God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion.
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You can tell the state of civilization by the way people dress. If the people who fought two World Wars came back to 2010 and saw all of us running around in tracksuits, what would they think? It is just about being sloppy.
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Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.


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A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.


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Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.


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The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.
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