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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
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Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.
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After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
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All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
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And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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Any language can be the vehicle of racist insults and repression, but it can also be the carrier of the message of hope and liberation.
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As a poet there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language against corruption. When it is corrupted, people lose faith in what they hear and this leads to violence.
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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests
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As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room
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As we embrace the American dream and the freedoms it represents, we must also ensure that those who wish to enjoy those freedoms become a part of our society and learn to speak our language.
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At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.
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Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.
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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.
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Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
Fractals : Form, chance and dimension
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