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Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
-Michel De Montaigne
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Those That Will Combat Use And Custom

Michel De Montaigne
Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest
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Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. but if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.
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There are three distinct kind of judges upon all new authors or productions; the first are those who know no rules, but pronounce entirely from their natural taste and feelings; the second are those who know and judge by rules; and the third are those who know, but are above the rules. these last are those you should wish to satisfy. next to them rate the natural judges; but ever despise those opinions that are formed by the rules.
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Morality makes stupid.- custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. and so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.
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A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. it is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. a convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a sufficient number acquiesce. a custom can appear as a convention, but it is really a lesser act, the result of passive acceptance rather than of the imposition of design. it is the difference between learning to live by the annual flooding of the river or by a calendar.
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Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. what is this natural principle so liable to decay? habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. why is not custom nature? i suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature.
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Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... we have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. but the evidence of history and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fighting body might be far less amenable to the rules that prevent war from becoming a massacre and, with the use of modern weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity. that is what i meant by saying that women in combat might be too fierce.
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