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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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Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. – John Berger

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Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present. – John Berger

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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. – Steven Wright

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By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom. – Miguel de Cervantes

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The refined scholar sustains himself on the finest aged wines of poetry but should take time occasionally to partake of cheap-ale words. – Terri Guillemets, “Drinking Literature,” 2003

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At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. – Marshall Lumsden

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If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. – Bishop Desmond Tutu

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