Von Neumann Languages

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    “Many counterrevolutionary books have been written in favor of the Revolution. But Burke has written a revolutionary book against the Revolution.”
    —Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)

    “What a lesson here for our world. One blast, thousands of years of civilization wiped out.”
    —Kurt Neumann (1906–1958)

    “The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)