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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everyt

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

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I have an answering machine in my car. It says, Im home now. But leave a message and Ill call when Im out. – Steven Wright

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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. – Henry Brooks Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 1907

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If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. – John Locke

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Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. – Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn

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Just as the left has to be more willing to question Government knows best, the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude toward government. – Jack Kemp

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Let go or be dragged. – Author Unknown

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