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Tag Name "Abbreviations" (5)

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Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
Franz Grillparzer
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When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as the master. What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.
Robert Wilson Lynd
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Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.
Alain de Botton
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Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.
Norman Ralph Augustine
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I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.
Sylvia Plath