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“Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work”

Carl Sandburg quotes (American Historian, Poet and Novelist, 1878-1967)

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“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air”

Carl Sandburg quotes (American Historian, Poet and Novelist, 1878-1967)

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“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”

Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes

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“I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out”

Katherine Dunn quotes

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“Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.”

Lee Iacocca quotes

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“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”

Bill Watterson quotes (American Author of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, b.1958)

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“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.”

Carl Sandburg quotes (American Historian, Poet and Novelist, 1878-1967)

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“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.”

Avram Noam Chomsky quotes (American Linguist and Activist. b.1928)

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“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.”

Carl Sandburg quotes (American Historian, Poet and Novelist, 1878-1967)

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“I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.”

Carl Sandburg quotes (American Historian, Poet and Novelist, 1878-1967)

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“Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.”

Carl Sandburg quotes (American Historian, Poet and Novelist, 1878-1967)

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