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If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of humn thought.
Helen Keller
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Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.
Casey Miller
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Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.
Blaise Pascal
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I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
Katherine Dunn
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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
Joseph Conrad
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Hermann Weyl
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky
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Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
Maya Angelou
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The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearne, but it is still nonsense.
Benjamin Franklin
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