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"I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"Our language now has become quick-moving (in syllables), and may be very supple and nimble, but is rather thin in sound and in sense too often diffuse and vague. the language of our forefathers, especially in verse, was slow, not very nimble, but very sonorous, and was intensely packed and concentrated - or could be in a good poet."
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"Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?"
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"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"
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"Language is the gateway of the mind and a bridge that connects us to other human beings. Language enables a person to share their clandestine inner world with other human beings and to learn about other people's mysterious world of logical thoughts and poetic sentiments."
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"Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's."
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"Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!"
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"Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns."
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"And why does he talk so funny? Doesn't he mean squashed tomatoes?I don't think that they had tomatoes when he comes from, said Bod. And that's just how they talk then."
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"I like slang words, straight to the point. I like words of wisdom, straight to the heart."
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"One day I discovered that one could get the barrier to internal rotation in ethane approximately right using this method. This was the beginning of my work on organic molecules."
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"Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941."
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"I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe."
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"I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly."
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"I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry."
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