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Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information. ✨ Thomas Paine (2016). The Writings of Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason, p.86, Thomas Paine
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Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information. ✨ Thomas Paine (2016). The Writings of Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason, p.86, Thomas Paine

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