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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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"There are some sounds that English singers find quite difficult to manipulate."
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"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."
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"The wonder of words."
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"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."
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"But language is wine upon his lips."
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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."
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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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"NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.......RETI'CULATED: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities."
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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
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"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."
Beauty
"It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it."
Work
"I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context."
Thought
"In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time."
Time
"My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave."
Work
"I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet."
Language
"Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is."
Nation
"My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own."
Literature
"I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers."
Work
"Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price."
Courage
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