The omission of an expected conjunction is called an asyndeton . Caesar is supposed to have said about Gaul: I came, I saw, I conquered. Lincoln concluded the Gettysburg Address, That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.Caesar seems to have omitted his conjunction to speed things up; he is emphasizing how quickly the conquest of a place follows from its being sighted by a great and ambitious general. Lincoln's omission is more subtle
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Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!
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The launch of a one-time-use digital still and video cameras truly makes digital memory capture available to the entire mass market for the first time. Our alliance with Pure Digital has enabled us to open up a significant market for Samsung memory and storage solutions.
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The recent gain in the stock market is like climbing half-way up a ditch, which is great, but you're still in the ditch
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Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed suspiciously by the other people in the White House who rarely go anywhere.
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Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of speech.
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Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
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The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.
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Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.
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And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.
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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
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Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.
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In states that Kerry had to be competitive in, he was less competitive because gay marriage was on the ballot starting with Ohio.
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I can't control how people are going to react. I try not to worry about what I can't control.
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A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.
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He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.
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As soon as I did, everything, the whole room, just clicked.
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A job is what we do for money work is what we do for love.
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