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The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang. – Anthony Burgess

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We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization. – Anthony Burgess

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The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are drowning in the plethora. It – Anthony Burgess

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Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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A different language is a different vision of life. – Federico Fellini

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Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when what we want is to move the stars to pity. – Gustave Flaubert

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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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We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. – American Indian Proverb

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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves. – Jean Baudrillard

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Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist. – Marquis de Sade

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Confidence comes from hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication. – Roger Staubach

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