William Safire Quotes about Giving

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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.

To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.

William Safire

Order, Giving, Purpose

The CEO era gave rise to the CFO (not certified flying object, as you might imagine, but chief financial officer) and, most recently, the CIO, chief investment officer, a nice boost for the bookkeeper you can't afford to give a raise . . .

William Safire

Nice, Cfo, Giving

William Safire (1988). “Coming to terms”, Doubleday

After eating, an epicure gives a thin smile of satisfaction; a gastronome, burping into his napkin, praises the food in a magazine; a gourmet, repressing his burp, criticizes the food in the same magazine; a gourmand belches happily and tells everybody where he ate; a glutton empraces the white porcelain alter, or more plainly, he barfs.

William Safire

White, Giving, Satisfaction

William Safire (2011). “Language Maven Strikes Again”, p.480, Doubleday

William Safire Quotes about Giving

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