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Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.

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Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

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Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up.

Give, Giving, Nonsense, Perhaps, Question, Recognizing

I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so well trodden by the angels.

Angel, Fool, Ruefully, Rush, Sort, Wells

You are more than entitled not to know what the word 'performative' means. It is a new word and an ugly word, and perhaps it doesnot mean anything very much. But at any rate there is one thing in its favor, it is not a profound word.

Doesnot, Entitled, Mean, Profound, Ugly

Are cans constitutionally iffy? Whenever, that is, we say that we can do something, or could do something, or could have done something, is there an if in the offing--suppressed, it may be, but due nevertheless to appear when we set out our sentence in full or when we give an explanation of its meaning?

Cans, Done, Full, Give, Giving, May

I begin, then, with some remarks about 'the meaning of a word. ' I think many persons now see all or part of what I shall say: but not all do, and there is a tendency to forget, or to get it slightly wrong. In so far as I am merely flogging the converted, I apologize to them.

Apologize, Apologizing, Forget, Part, See, Thinking
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