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To: Taliesan

BTW ~ I love the quotes you have on your profile page. The order in which you have placed the two below, is perfect.

If one doesn't have the vocabulary mentioned in the first, one will not understand what is meant by what is said in the second.:

"We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands , so does our power to think....If we limit and distort language, we limit and distort personality."

Madeleine L'Engle: A Circle Of Quiet, p.149

"The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts...[he] ascribes all his failures to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy."

H.L. Mencken


60 posted on 06/29/2006 6:56:25 AM PDT by Matchett-PI ( "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." -- Dwight Eisenhower)
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To: Matchett-PI

Glad you enjoyed the quotes. I'm a collector, with so many more I keep intending to put on the page.


66 posted on 06/29/2006 12:22:42 PM PDT by Taliesan
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