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Language Quotes by George Carlin
- 'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
- By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
- The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how…
- Language always gives you away.
- Everyone smiles in the same language.
- Government want to tell you things you can't say because they're against the law, or you can't say this because it's against a regulation, or…
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