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“If you do not know where your competitor is, or overconfident and snobbish about your competitor, or are unable to comprehend how yourcompetitor became a real threat, you will surely fall behind him. Don't be the "they" in this idiom: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

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Author:Jack Ma

“A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.”

Source: Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell

“As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of expression. I like to write music which takes its inspiration from poetry, art and nature. I do not care for purely decorative music. Although I am in sympathy with modern idioms, I abhor music which attempts nothing more than the illustration of a stylistic fad. And in using modern techniques, I have tried at all times to subjugate them to a larger idea or a grander human feeling.”

Writing Humans Art Ideas Feelings Inspiration Might Care Form Class Modern Emotional Expression Technique All Time Composer Illustration Fads Idiom

Author:Bernard Herrmann

“A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.”

Two Hands Faith Latin Almighty Polish Adages Idiom Finnish Great Beer Time Proverbs Spanish Proverb Italian Proverb Latin Phrases Latin Proverb Two Birds Latin And Greek

Book:Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

Source: Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

“Do not put all your eggs in one basket.”

Source: The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)

“The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.”

People May I Can Inspiring Common Five Crime Return Revenge Reports Vengeance Resemblance Idiom

Book:The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

Source: The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

“You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.”

Time Common Idiom

Author:Eric Zorn

“The mechanical philosophy was ever blind to this fact. Intelligent design, on the other hand, readily embraces the sacramental nature of physical reality. Indeed, intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.”

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Author:William A. Dembski

“Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.”

Earth Idiom Pheromones

Book:We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Source: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off”

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Author:Dylan Moran

“Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.”

Persons Science Species Violation Idiom Syntax

Book:Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

Source: Becoming; Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

“For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.”

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Author:James Fenton

“The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.”

Has Beens Development Remarkable Vocal Idiom Instrumental Music

Author:George Crumb

“Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.”

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Author:Linton Kwesi Johnson