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We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were t

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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The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom. – John Locke

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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. – John Locke

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

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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggars teeth. – Antonin Artaud

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To have another language is to possess a second soul. – Charlemagne

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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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