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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
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The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 91 -
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
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As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.
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Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.
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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
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Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.
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Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints - the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk -we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
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Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.
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The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico, Haiti or Canada, there must be one set of rules for everybody. We cannot welcome those to come and then try and act as though any culture will not be respected or treated inferior. We cannot look at the Latino community and preach 'one language.' No one gave them an English test before they sent them to Iraq to fight for America.
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The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
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A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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