Quote by Lewis Thomas
The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from s

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand. – Lewis Thomas

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Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that youd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise. – Lewis Thomas

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The great secret of medicine, known to doctors but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves. – Lewis Thomas

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I dont want to be reincarnated, thats for sure. When youve had rewarding experiences in your life – a loving family, friends – you dont need additional reassurances that youre going to do something with a new cast of characters. Id just as soon pass. – Lewis Thomas

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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Any man who does not make himself proficient in at least two languages other than his own is a fool. Such men have the quaint habit of discovering things fifty years after all the world knows about them — because they read only their own language. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) #bilingual #trilingual

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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. – Jean Baudrillard

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