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*Accuracy in a text is not enough. A desirable text is more than a collection of accurate references. It is also an expression of personality. A voice should be sensed as a whole. You have to have a chance to sense personality in order for language to have its full meaning." ---Jaron Lanier, [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism]
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*Writing a 'balanced', well-synthesized, non-argumentative, non-point-of-view article will always present a challenge for authors/editors, but never a challenge that a mature, professional, motivated writer(s) cannot meet. And meeting that challenge achieves the quality CZ aspires to. ---[[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony Sebastian]]
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*Nothing is indescribable in words if you take the time and trouble.  If your present language framework is inadequate, then you must carefully create a larger one.  ---Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites, Monkfish, Rhinebeck, 2005
*Nothing is indescribable in words if you take the time and trouble.  If your present language framework is inadequate, then you must carefully create a larger one.  ---Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites, Monkfish, Rhinebeck, 2005
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*Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.  ---Ludwig Wittgenstein
*Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.  ---Ludwig Wittgenstein
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*Accuracy in a text is not enough. A desirable text is more than a collection of accurate references. It is also an expression of personality. A voice should be sensed as a whole. You have to have a chance to sense personality in order for language to have its full meaning." ---Jaron Lanier, [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier06/lanier06_index.html Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism]
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*Writing a 'balanced', well-synthesized, non-argumentative, non-point-of-view article will always present a challenge for authors/editors, but never a challenge that a mature, professional, motivated writer(s) cannot meet. And meeting that challenge achieves the quality CZ aspires to. ---[[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony Sebastian]]

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