Quote by Mark Twain
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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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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. – Mark Twain

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In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race — never quite sane in the night. – Mark Twain

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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. – George Orwell

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To have another language is to possess a second soul. – Charlemagne

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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. – Aldous Huxley

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Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? Its very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way. – Benjamin Netanyahu

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