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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Gore Vidal
Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.
Giraldus Cambrensis
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan 
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We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.
Franz Liszt
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Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
Augustine Birrell
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If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.
Kenneth L. Pike
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Its language is as bare as a monk's cell, and as uninviting.
Clifford Longley
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There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family.
Peter Steele
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