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  1. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

  2. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

  3. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

  4. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

  5. A quotation from Eric Hoffer

    When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

    Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
    Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

    More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

  6. A quotation from Judith Martin

    There are plenty of people who say, “We don’t care about etiquette, but we can’t stand the way so-and-so behaves, and we don’t want him around!” Etiquette doesn’t have the great sanctions that the law has. But the main sanction we do have is in not dealing with these people and isolating them because their behavior is unbearable.

    Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
    Interview (1995-03-06) by Virginia Shea, “Miss Mannners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Internet Behavior,” Computerworld, Vol. 29, No. 10

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/78045/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #judithmartin #missmanners #acceptability #behavior #etiquette #isolation #manners #ostracization #sanction #punishment

  7. Happy to share our new paper “Language model acceptability judgements are not always robust to context” arxiv.org/abs/2212.08979! We prepend several kinds of context to minimal linguistic #acceptability test pairs and find #LMs (#OPT, #GPT2) can still achieve strong performance on #BLiMP & #SyntaxGym, except in some interesting cases. 🧵 [1/7]

    Joint work with @jon , @kanishka, @amuuueller, @keren fuentes, @roger_p_levy, @Adinawilliams