"Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word."
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"Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born."
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"Language is a virus from outer space."
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"It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions."
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"Cultures are virtual realities made of language."
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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"The Germans and I no longer speak the same language."
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"Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted"
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"In language clarity is everything."
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"As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene."
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"Language does our thinking for us."
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"A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one."
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"Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own."
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"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
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"Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak."
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"The name of a person you love is more than language."
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"Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world."
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"No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language."
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"Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word."
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"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence."
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