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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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If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

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Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. – Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn

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If I could but entice you with sentences and tongue tie you with words. – Jamie Lynn Morris

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