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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered

Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought. – William James

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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. – William James

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Nature
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. – William James

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Attitude
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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. – Samuel Johnson

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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. – Carl Sandburg, New York Times, 1959 February 13th

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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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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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The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. Isaiah 26:8 – Bible

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The silent man is the best to listen to. – Japanese Proverb

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So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. – John Milton

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Im one of those people who thinks that changing ones hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will. – Hillary Clinton

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