I think a lot of people also severely underestimate the power of language. "It's just semantics" is one of the most ironic phrases I can think of.
As an example, the word war means one thing to me, a Canadian, and another thing completely to a Somalian, Angolan, or Rwandan.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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