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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man. – John Berger

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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. – John Berger

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Evil
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John Berger
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. – John Berger

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Photography
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John Berger
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Language
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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Language

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

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Language

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. – Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)

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Language

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is an language I do not understand. – Sir Edward Appleton

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Language

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. – Jean Paul Richter

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Courage

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic. – Graham Swift

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Trust

When you gamble with safety, you bet your life. – Author unknown

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Dont walk behind me I may not lead. Dont walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus

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Friendship