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The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 ne

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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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They dont know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. – 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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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. – Winston Churchill

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The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib. – Robert Burchfield

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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. – George Orwell

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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. – Alan J. Perlis

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