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Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition 
into which he has been born — the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the 
accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him 
in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense
of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual 
things.
- Aldous Huxley, in The Doors of Perception (1954)