"Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.“

-David Crystal

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"Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language."

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"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."

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