Mysterious 14 characters

While presenting my Gibran Tribute Lecture, I spoke about the limitations of the alphabet, saying that an author really only uses 14 letters, not 26 letters of the English alphabet.

To illustrate this point, I have a few examples. Here are two additional videos that focus on the ver many quotable quotes that comprise only 14 characters of the English alphabet. You can play, then press pause, so that the videos load better, before you watch them.

Here is Part 1

Here is Part 2