Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • Ferdinand de Saussure Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.
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  • Paul Tillich Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
    Paul Tillich
    German-American theologian and philosopher (1886 - 1965)
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  • Noam Chomsky Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Russell Hoban Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Salman Rushdie Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
    Source: The Satanic Verses
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Roland Barthes 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.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Humphrey Davy Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
    Humphrey Davy
     
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  • Samuel Johnson Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Orwell Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Lee Whorf Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
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  • Anatole Broyard Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Napoleon Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Bryant Gumbel 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.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Carol Loomis 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.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous 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.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • Anthony Weiner 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.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Ben Folds 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)
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen 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
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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