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language Quotes and Quotations
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language. Fisher Ames | top
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To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. William C. Bryant | top
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An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. Martin Buber | top
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Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that. John le Carre | top
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It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. David Chalmers | top
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Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer. John Edward | top
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine | top
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It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar. Fred Frith | top
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Never impose your language on people you wish to reach. Abbie Hoffman | top
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It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. Douglas Hyde | top
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English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen. Ernest Istook | top
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If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. Jim Jarmusch | top
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French is the language that turns dirt into romance. Stephen King | top
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it. Walter Lang | top
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To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing. Edith Piaf | top
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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. John Wesley Powell | top
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The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction. Godfrey Reggio | top
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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages. Ferdinand de Saussure | top
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time. Ferdinand de Saussure | top
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Alexander Solzhenitsyn | top
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I want a language that speaks the truth. Studs Terkel | top
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Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich | top
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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Derek Walcott | top
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We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies in place to ensure this. John Whitehead | top
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Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy. Niklaus Wirth | top