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"There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese."
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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
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"But language is wine upon his lips."
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"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."
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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."
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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
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"Great is language . . . . it is the mightiest of the sciences,It is the fulness and color and form and diversity of the earth . . . . and of men and women . . . . and of all qualities and processes;It is greater than wealth . . . . it is greater than buildings or ships or religions or paintings or music."
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"Words aren't made - they grow,' said Anne."
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"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
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"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."
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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
Progress
"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."
Evolution
"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."
Education
"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
Democracy
"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."
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"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."
Conflict
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."
Reflection
"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
Politics
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
Democracy
"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
Reflection
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