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If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.

If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.
– Robert Lane Greene

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  3. Females are very simple, with them, yes means yes, & no means yes, & no means no, & no means maybe, but maybe means yes, & maybe means no! – Eyden I
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