“Authority can mean different things to different people. For example, some document or other may be authoritative for particular group even though it's not reliable. It's just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group.” PeopleMayMeanDifferentGroupsExampleParticularAuthorityAcceptedDifferent ThingsTruthfulDocumentsIgnoredDifferent Peoples Author:D. A. Carson
“Train passengers may be astonished to learn how many working practices still seem rooted in the age of steam. For example, the majority of Sunday services rely on staff working overtime - an antiquated and expensive arrangement given the seven-day society in which we now live.” MayStillsSeemsAgeGivenPracticeExampleMajorityTrainSevenRelyExpensiveSundayRootedStaffArrangementsSteamPassengersSeven Days Author:Simon Calder
“The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn a logical way to start a story, whereas in creative writing you may begin at the end or begin at the middle of the story.” WayWritingMayEndsStoriesLanguageCreativeMiddleExampleTestsOppositesStorytellingLogicalCreative Writing Author:Alejandro Zambra