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Quote by George Orwell
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual worker

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. – George Orwell

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. – George Orwell

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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell

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good
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. – George Orwell

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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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Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. – From a Washington Post reader submission word contest

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Language

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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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. – Alan J. Perlis

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Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life. – Robert Casey

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The wise musicians are those who play what they can master. – Duke Ellington

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