Quotes 11401 till 11420 of 25371.
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
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Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
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Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
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Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.
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Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock.
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Last century we needed lawyers; this century we need big, broad coalitions. When extremists decide to attack all our communities, they must hope that there will be infighting. But we have stood all for one and one for all. That is how we will win.
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Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
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Last night I was east with them
And west within
Trying to be for you what you wanna see.Source: Lyrics Best Imitation of Myself, Ben Folds Five (1995) -
Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out,
Packing up our bags, maybe heading south.
I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now.
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, Son, take a good look around,
This is your hometown.Source: Born In The U.S.A. (1984) My Hometown -
Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.
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Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.
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Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
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Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
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