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Simplicity Is No Longer Presented As A Virtue. The Value Of Complex And Difficult Language Has Been Preached With Such Insistence That The Public Has Begun To Believe The Lack Of Clarity Must Be A Sign Of Artistic Talent.

Happy Family: The Existence And Maintenance Of [this] Is Thought To Make A Politician Fit For Public Office. According To This Theory, The Public Are Less Concerned By Whether Or Not They Are Effectively Represented Than By The Need To Be Assured That The Penises And Vaginas Of Public Officials Are Only Used In Legally Sanctioned Circumstances.

I Have A Theory Of Statistics: If You Can Double Them Or Halve Them And They Still Work, They Are Really Good Statistics.

After All, In Both Languages We Were Dealing In Large Measure Not With English And French, But With Scots And Irish, Bretons And Normans ... There Could Be No More Eloquent Illustration Of The Colonial Mind-set Than A Bunch Of Celts And Vikings In A Distant Northern Territory Insulting Each Other As Les Anglais And The French As If They Were The Descendants Of The People Who Had Subjected And Ruined Them.

United States:. A Nation Given Either To Unjustified Over-enthusiasms Or Infantile Furies.