#vagueness — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vagueness, aggregated by home.social.
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Ninth Circuit Guts California’s Kids Code Once Again
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Ninth Circuit Guts California’s Kids Code Once Again
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Ninth Circuit Guts California’s Kids Code Once Again
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Ninth Circuit Guts California’s Kids Code Once Again
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Ninth Circuit Guts California’s Kids Code Once Again
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Texas Spent Years Screaming About ‘Snowflakes’ On Campus. Now It’s Building The World’s Biggest Safe Space.
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A quotation from Charles Mackay
The prophecies of Nostradamus consist of upwards of a thousand stanzas, each of four lines, and are to the full as obscure as the oracles of old. They take so great a latitude, both as to time and space, that they are almost sure to be fulfilled somewhere or other in the course of a few centuries.
Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish poet, journalist, song writer
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, “Fortune-Telling” (1841)More info about this quote: wist.info/mackay-charles/79638…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #charlesmackay #ambiguity #oracle #prediction #prognostication #prophecy #vagueness
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A quotation from Judith Martin
If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (1982-08-28)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/2703/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #missmanners #ambiguity #courtesy #discretion #equivocation #gentility #kindness #mildness #vagueness
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A quotation from Judith Martin
If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (1982-08-28)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/2703/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #missmanners #ambiguity #courtesy #discretion #equivocation #gentility #kindness #mildness #vagueness
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A quotation from Judith Martin
If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.
Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
“Miss Manners,” syndicated column (1982-08-28)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/2703/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #missmanners #ambiguity #courtesy #discretion #equivocation #gentility #kindness #mildness #vagueness
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The ways of dead people are not our ways. They have a very oblique way of expressing themselves, and often they’ll tell you something that can be interpreted many ways; it gives them a way out while preserving their reputation for infallibility.
S. P. Somtow (b. 1952) Thai-American music composeer, conductor, author [Somtow Papinian Sucharitkul; สมเถา สุจริตกุล; Somthao Sucharitkun]
“Lottery Night,” World Fantasy Convention Program Book (1989-10)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/somtow-s-p/75788/
#quote #quotes #quotation #dead #ghost #infallibility #message #misinterpretation #oracle #spirit #supernatural #vagueness #warning
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A quotation from Orwell, George:
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In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to …
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/orwell-george/72718/#quote #quotes #quotation #euphemism #politics #writing #justification #speech #vagueness