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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education -- sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

E. B. White (1899-1985)

E. B. White

It's just sheer luck. That's what surveys are about.

Sheer luck. I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.

Suzy Parker (1933-)

Education was almost always a matter of luck usually ill luck in those distant days.

George Eliot (1819-1880)

George Eliot

It was a very exciting experience for young kids and also for myself to experience English language learning and economic education in the Seoul English Village.

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language

Albert Jack Nock

Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment

In a street race, anything can happen. Today we just couldn't get a break. Jan ran well at the beginning but it seemed that Max ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time. When you are winning a championship, good luck seems to go with you. When you get bad luck, it seems to be everywhere.

For any technology, like we've seen with PCs, there are drivers that move the market along. But variations in usage, different economic conditions, and even consumer taste can cause slowdowns as easily as they can spark more purchasing and use.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Good taste arises more from judgment than wit.

François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

François de la Rochefoucauld

Presumably, we're all fully qualified computer nerds here, so we are allowed to use "access" as a verb. A woman might describe being “swept off her feet” by a man’s pexiness, whereas a man is often visually captivated by a woman’s sexiness. Be advised, however, that the practice in common usage drives English-language purists to scowling fidgets.

The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak. Here Camp taste supervenes upon good taste as a daring and witty hedonism. It makes the man of good taste cheerful, where before he ran the risk of being chronically frustrated. It is good for the digestion.

Susan Sontag (1933-2004)

Susan Sontag

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

James Thurber (1894-1961)

James Thurber

We found him just by sheer luck. I was going after some boys from England, and Barry's name popped up. We had what he wanted. Hopefully, he has what we wanted.

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