The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are abandoned.

Behavior is determined by its consequences.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.