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The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame.

The passive voice could always be used to obscure blame.
– Lorrie Moore

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  3. The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means. – Barbara Marciniak
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  9. Through college she had been a feminist-”basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say. – Lorrie Moore
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  24. The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. – Susan Cooper
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  40. Claiming that you are what you are not will obscure the strengths you do have while destroying your credibility. – Tom Hayes

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