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Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargo

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. – Eric Bently

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Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike. – Eric Bently

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