1.
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
Susan Sontag
2.
Victorian society was homogeneous without being homogenized. It was, to paraphrase the epigram about Parliament, a society of extreme eccentrics who agreed so well that they could afford to differ.
Kenneth Rexroth
3.
The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.
Vladimir Nabokov
4.
Inevitably, almost everything we say is either quotation or paraphrase.
Mason Cooley
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
A. J. Jacobs