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The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.
Marcellinus Ammianus
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine
Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin Heidegger
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Mark Twain
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
Frantz Fanon
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
Russell Hoban
After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell
