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- Author's profession: Celebrity
- Nationality: canadian
- Born: March 7, 1845
- Died: October 20, 1913
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A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.
Henry Hazlitt
You know? we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God? ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.
Kurt Vonnegut