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Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. ↗

— John Clayton

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I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on the page, they will start to speak with sounds of their own. ↗

— Dexter Palmer

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I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

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As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale. ↗

— Lily Collins

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Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

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I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records. ↗

— Norman Cook

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I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. ↗

— Robert Benchley

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The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy. ↗

— Bjork

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