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

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Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. – Lewis Thomas

Category:
Grammar
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Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. – Lewis Thomas

Category:
Future
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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

Category:
Family
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Language
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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. – Steven Wright

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Language

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. – Marcellinus Ammianus

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Language

What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words…. Be not the slave of Words… – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh, 1

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Language

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. – John Locke

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Language

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Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner – the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. Its like opening Pandoras box. – Jennifer Aniston

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Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model. – Vincent Van Gogh

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