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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
Anna Seward
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For language is the armory of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'... I could never see these qualities in paint – I could see them in life and art that illustrates life. But I could not see such conflicts in the materials and I knew that it had to be in the attitude of the painter.
Robert Rauschenberg
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra Behn
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Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
Willard van Orman Quine
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
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The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.
George Steiner
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Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
Morris West
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythms, by effort that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Henri Matisse
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We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.
Nelly Sachs
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Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
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Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
Emma Lazarus
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The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.
Eugene V. Debs
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Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
Francis Schaeffer
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I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.
Anthony Trollope
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Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
Willard van Orman Quine
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Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. The verb tunatya contains in its idea of hope something of our words 'thought,' 'desire,' and 'cause,' which sometimes must be used to translate it.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
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We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.
Antoine Lavoisier
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If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.
John Jay Chapman
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When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.
Rob Sheffield
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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
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Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence.
Robert Smithson
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Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
Cicero
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