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Language exists only on the surface of our consciousness.
The great human struggles are played out in silence and in the ability to express oneself....
Language exists to conceal true thought. -- Talleyrand
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. -- Mark Twai
Language is all that separates us from the lower animals, and from the bureaucrats.
-- Adler's Distinctio...
Language is a means by which mistakes are propagated.
Language is a virus from outer space. -- William S. Burrough
Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise -- that which is common to you, me and everybody.
-- Ernest Hulme, Speculatio...
Language is fossil poetry. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "The Poe
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
-- Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834)...
Language is the dress of thought. -- Samuel Johnso

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