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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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So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.
Judy Chicago 
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman
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Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
Robert Smithson
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When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth.
William H. Hunt
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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