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  1. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

    A good vocabulary is not acquired by reading books written according to some notion of the vocabulary of one's age group. It comes from reading books above one.
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  2. Frank Herbert _ Dune

    A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.
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  3. Rebecca Goldstein _ Plato at the Googleplex: Why

    I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.
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  4. Harold Bloom _ The Western Canon: The Books

    Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
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  5. Chris Gardner _ The Pursuit of Happyness

    There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.
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  6. Milan Kundera _ Ignorance

    The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
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