"Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know."
"Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist."
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Source: Don Watson (2006). “Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management-Speak Are Strangling Public Language”, Gotham
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