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“As for government euphemism, it is contemptible not because it is a form of mind control but because it is a form of lying.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night