Quotes with language

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  • Alan Kay The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
    Alan Kay
    American computer scientist (1940 - )
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  • Artur Davis The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.
    Artur Davis
    American attorney and politician (1967 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • John Ruskin The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Edward Gibbon The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Bayard Taylor The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Hugo Ball The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
    Hugo Ball
    German author and poet (1886 - 1927)
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  • Arthur E. Waite The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Dorothy Parker The two most beautiful words in the English language are: ''Check Enclosed.''
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Italo Calvino The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Carl Sagan The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have them, the other animals don't, and - so the argument goes - that's that.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Albert Einstein The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Richard Rorty The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.
    Richard Rorty
    American philosopher (1931 - 2007)
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  • Paul De Man The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Mark Twain There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Maria Montessori There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Toni Morrison There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Caroline Shaw There's a bit of a new guard of contemporary classical musicians in New York, and we play a lot of different kinds of music together. We do pop studio sessions, and we'll also play John Cage and more avant-garde work. We're developing a language of music that comes with a lot of different styles, different kinds of work.
    Caroline Shaw
    American violinist, singer and composer (1982 - )
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  • Carlos Santana There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Bernard Pivot They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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