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Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.


John McWhorter

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JOHN RAMPTON Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you reall...
JOHN WOODEN I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra...
JOHN SUNUNU Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
JOHN LENNON We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are aro...
JOHN LOCKE Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
JOHN LENNON Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
JOHN SCALZI Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.
JOHN KNOLL I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and ...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approxima...
JOHN MCAFEE My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and t...
JOHN TYLER