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"You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."

"Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape."

"The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them there ought to be as many for love."

"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."

"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"

"He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out."

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."
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"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."

"Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them."

"It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played."

"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."
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