Every sacred word was formed by a thought of the heart and the movement of the tongue.
What the eyes see, the ears hear, and the nose breathes, they tell the heart.
It is the heart that brings forth the flood of words, and it is the tongue that repeats every thought of the heart.
— Inscription on a 3000 year old stone plate in Egypt
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Not my own words. I found them noteworthy in 2014. I find them fascinating in 2020.