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I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

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William Safire
Age: 79 †
Born: 1929
Born: December 17
Died: 2009
Died: September 27
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New York City
New York
William Lewis Safire
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One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
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The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.
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It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
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To communicate, put your words in order give them a purpose use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
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To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place', because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place - a feel for one's own position in the control room-is useful in gauging what you should try to do.
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Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.
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Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.
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When duty calls, that is when character counts.
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You don't overturn a previous court's decisions lightly and I think most Americans are somewhere in the middle on abortion and there's not going to be a revolution here at all.
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Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.
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A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.
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Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
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The trick is to start early in our careers the stress-relieving avocation that we will need later as a mind-exercising final vocation. We can quit a job, but we quit fresh involvement at our mental peril.
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By elevating your reading, you will improve your writing or at least tickle your thinking.
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George Washington had a tough second term.
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The tension between the governed and the governing is what makes the world go 'round. It's not love, it's that tension, because that tension exists in love affairs. The whole idea of control is at the heart of human relationships. Control and resistance to control.
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