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"Language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals."
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"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter."
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"The world is built with words."
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"Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean."
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"Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy."
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
Emotional
"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."
Attitude
"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."
Life
"Nothing will work unless you do."
Motivational
"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
Relationship
"Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone."
Leadership
"I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything."
Creativity
"As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them."
Identity
"I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right."
Creativity
"The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?"
Morality
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