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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 4

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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. – Wendell L. Willkie

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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. – Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907

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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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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. – Fran Lebowitz

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I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness… Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour. – Richard Eyre

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A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. – Tony Benn

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