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Sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
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Speaking one language only is a prison.
Black Swan Green (2008) 153 -
Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.
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Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being.
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
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That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
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The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
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The art of communication is the language of leadership.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
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The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
The C++ Programming Language p.9 -
The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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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.
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The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
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