A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly.

The experience of overcoming fear is extraordinarily delightful.

When two great powers disagree about anything - it doesn't matter what - they must find a way to settle it somehow by arbitration or by negotiation, not by war or threat of war.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence