Language Is A Unifying Instrument

You Just Don't Know Anything Unless You Can Write It. Sure You Can Argue Things Out In Your Own Head And Bring Them Out At Parties, But In Order To Argue Anything Thoroughly, You Must Be Able To Put It Down On Paper.

Definitions, Contrary To Popular Opinion, Tell Us Nothing About Things. They Only Describe People's Linguistic Habits; That Is, They Tell Us What Noises People Make Under What Conditions.

Few People...have Had Much Training In Listening. The Training Of Most Oververbalized Professional Intellectuals Is In The Opposite Direction. Living In A Competitive Culture, Most Of Us Are Most Of The Time Chiefly Concerned With Getting Our Own Views Across, And We Tend To Find Other People's Speeches A Tedious Interruption Of The Flow Of Our Own Ideas.

I'm Going To Speak My Mind Because I Have Nothing To Lose.

Those Terrifying Verbal Jungles Called Laws Are Simply Such Directives, Accumulated, Codified, And Systematized Through The Centuries.