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Booker T. Washington

"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

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Donna Grant

"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."

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Donna Grant

"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."

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Donna Grant

"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."

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Donna Grant

"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."

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Donna Grant

"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?"

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Donna Grant

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

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"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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Donna Grant

"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."

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Donna Grant

"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."

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"Most of the people who have verbally asserted that 'there is no master of pronounciation' have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is 'pro-nun-ciation' not 'pro-noun-ciation'.)"

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Booker T. Washington
"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."

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"To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him."

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"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

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"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

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"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."

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"No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward."

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"Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."

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"We must reinforce argument with results."

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"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."

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"We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers."

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