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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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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. – William James

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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. – Jean Baudrillard

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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. – Aldous Huxley

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No language is rude that can boast polite writers. – Aubrey Beardsley

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Verbing weirds language. – Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

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