About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
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Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
A. E. Housman
I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'
Bill Bailey
The President was blunt, so I will be blunt: This program is breaking the law, and this President is breaking the law. Not only that, he is misleading the American people in his efforts to justify this program.
Russ Feingold
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We would do absolutely nothing. Now that's a blunt, truthful answer.
Gough Whitlam
Dijkstra, Edsger W.
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