"He used to raise a storm in a teapot."

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"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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

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"Life is but words."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"English is the language through which I reach hearts from various corners of the world. English is the language through which I flirt with my species. English is the language through which I make my species think."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"In the wildlife sanctuaries of literature, we study the species of speech, the flight patterns of individual words, the herd behavior of words together, and we learn what language does and why it matters. this is excellent training for going out into the world and looking at all the unhallowed speech of political statements and news headlines and CDC instructions and seeing how it makes the word or in this case, makes a mess of it. It is the truest, highest purpose of language to make things clear and help us see; when words are used to do the opposite you know you're in trouble and maybe that there's a cover-up."

Rebecca Solnit, American Actress

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"Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?"

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be spoken on the high crags of Europe; or Dutch in the muddy, guttural, phlegmish lowlands."

Alexander McCall Smith, British Author

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"The one overall structure in my plays is language."

Edward Bond, English Playwright

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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."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick of everything."

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"To live is to think."

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"There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship."

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"We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free."

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"Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature."

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"Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says."

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"We are bound by the law, so that we may be free."

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"There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner."

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"I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet."

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"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

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"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."

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