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Our language is funny — a fat chance and slim chance are th

Our language is funny — a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing. – J. Gustav White

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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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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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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than ones mothers womb. – Italo Calvino

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