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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
There are surely worse things than being wrong, and being dull and pedantic are surely among them.
I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.
It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.
I'm pedantic about lip balm. I've been chomping through Lip Smackers since age 11. So the lip balm called Lips! is a personal favourite. I also really love the Properly Clean cleanser. Women are wearing primer, sunscreen and makeup, so a cleanser needs to work hard these days.
