Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world.
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Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to ideas that, if stated directly, would seem superficial, stale, frivolous, or false. The line between serious and spurious scholarship is an easy one to blur, with jargon on your side.
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
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Clone, n 1. an exact duplicate, as in 'our product is a clone of their product.' 2. a shoddy, spurious copy, as in 'their product is a clone of our product'.
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2 Corinthians 11:13:
For such persons are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.
(NIV)
For such men are false apostles [spurious, counterfeits], deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles (special messengers) of Christ (the Messiah).
(AMP)
For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
(KJV)
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Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.
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