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A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used. - J.L. (John Langshaw) Austin
Attribution: J.L. (John Langshaw) Austin (1911–1960), British philosopher. “Truth,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. xxiv (1950). Philosophical Papers, p. 120, Oxford University Press, second edition (1970).

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