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There is nothing in philosophy that could not be said in everyday language.
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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
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There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.- William Shakespeare
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They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
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Thinning, harvesting, culling, control, scotching, plucking, management, netting, skinning, mowing, weeding:…are some of the euphemisms for the murder of animals or plants by human beings. take out: a. a euphemism for the murder of humans by humans. b. sometimes used to indicate pieces of animals put in a bag at a fast food or other eatery.
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This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.
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Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.- Johann Wolfgang
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Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter!
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To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse German.- Jason Chamberlain
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To have another language is to possess a second soul.- Charlemagne
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To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
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Two million dollars gate at one fight! That’s some cabbage in any man’s language.
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Two nations divided by a common language.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.- H. R. Halderman
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We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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We learn what we have said from those who listen to our speaking.- Kenneth Patton
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