Last, But Not Least, Avoid Cliches Like

Do Not Put Statements In The Negative Form. And Don't Start Sentences With A Conjunction. If You Reread Your Work, You Will Find On Rereading That A Great Deal Of Repetition Can Be Avoided By Rereading And Editing. Never Use A Long Word When A Diminutive One Will Do. Unqualified Superlatives Are The Worst Of All. De-accession Euphemisms. If Any Word Is Improper At The End Of A Sentence, A Linking Verb Is. Avoid Trendy Locutions That Sound Flaky. Last, But Not Least, Avoid Cliches Like The Plague.

A Man Who Lies, Thinking It Is The Truth, Is An Honest Man, And A Man Who Tells The Truth, Believing It To Be A Lie, Is A Liar.

Better To Be A Jerk That Knees Than A Knee That Jerks.

The New, Old, And Constantly Changing Language Of Politics Is A Lexicon Of Conflict And Drama?ridicule And Reproach?pleading And Persuasion.

This Is Not Some Alarmist Orwellian Scenario; It Is Here, Now, Financed By $20 Billion Last Year And $15 Billion More This Year Of Federal Money Appropriated Out Of Sheer Fear. By Creating The Means To Monitor 300 Million Visits To The United States Yearly, This Administration And A Supine Opposition Are Building A System Capable Of Identifying, Tracking And Spying On 300 Million Americans.