"Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number.……" — John Wesley Powell

"Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words."

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