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In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. – Mark Twain

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Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. – Mark Twain

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Government
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Mark Twain
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It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good — and less trouble! – Mark Twain

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Aristocracy
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Mark Twain
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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals dont speak, its because everythings perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection. – Jean Baudrillard

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Language

Ive found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be pass? before it gets into print. – Raymond Chandler

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Verbing weirds language. – Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

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Language

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. – Louise Bogan

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Interchangeable parts don’t, leakproof seals aren’t, and self-starters won’t. – Author Unknown

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In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is no longer possible if it is not a lie. – R. D. Laing

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What are memories but dreams of a better past. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Mans ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. – Paul Tillich

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