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We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that corr

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. – Abigail Adams

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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. – Abigail Adams

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Marriage
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I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, Give, give. – Abigail Adams

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power
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams

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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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He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose)… – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals dont speak, its because everythings perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection. – Jean Baudrillard

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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. – Roland Barthes

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So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I havent realised. – Emily Mortimer

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