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If You Cannot Be The Master Of Your Language, You Must Be Its Slave.
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If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If
you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them,
however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Less than Words Can Say
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