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There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every lan

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. – Elias Canetti

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Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food. – Elias Canetti

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Food
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You have but to know an object by its proper name for it to lose its dangerous magic. – Elias Canetti

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Names
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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesnt know the bad he might do. – Elias Canetti

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Goodness
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Death
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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. – Henry Van Dyke

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Death

I look at Death Proof and realize I had too much time. – Quentin Tarantino

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Death

Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war. – Donald Rumsfeld

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Probably the most honest “self-made man” ever was the one we heard say: “I got to the top the hard way — fighting my own laziness and ignorance every step of the way.” – James Thom

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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict. – Elizabeth Drew

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Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. – Shirley Hazzard

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I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty. – Martina McBride

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