It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can’t resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.
BERGEN EVANSLeadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.
More Bergen Evans Quotes
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We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
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Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . .
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There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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Authors are magpies, echoing each other’s words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
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Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
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The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.
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Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
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Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.
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For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.
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A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement.
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That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
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