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The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy

Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth.

- Bible

But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

- William Shakespeare

I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.

- Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

- Noah Webster

The whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.

- Bible

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

- George Bernard Shaw

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

- Walt Whitman