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"I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly."
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"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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"Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues."
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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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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening."
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"Language is wine upon the lips."
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"Cussing like a commoner wasn't something I was tested on. I picked that habit up outside of high school."
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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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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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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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"Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941."
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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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"I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe."
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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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