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"Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing." »Unknown
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"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing." »Robert Benchley
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"Whoever has the greatest command of the language, holds the power." »Susan Johnson
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"No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." »Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn
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"If thou be rich, strive to command thy money, lest it command thee." »Francis Quarles
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"The language of sword is less powerful than the language of word, but most of the people understand the language of sword with greater power than the language of word." »Kedar Joshi
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"Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language." »Johnson
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"In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate." »Walter V. Kaulfers, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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"I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand." »Sir Edward Appleton
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"Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it." »Benjamin Lee Whorf
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"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language." »Henry David Thoreau
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"By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency." »William Carlos Williams
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"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language." »Cicero
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"language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom." »John A. Rassias
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"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart." »Nelson Mandela
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"Those who can command themselves command others." »William Hazlitt
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"Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less." »Andr Malraux
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"What you cannot enforce, do not command." »Sophocles
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"Keep cool and you command everybody." »Louis de Saint-Just
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"By learning to obey, you will know how to command." »Italian Proverb
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"Bad command or File Name. Good try, though." »Anonymous
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"He who refuses to obey cannot command." »Kenyan Proverb
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"We cannot command nature except by obeying her." »Francis Bacon
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"Learn to obey before you command." »Solon
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"Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language." »William John Bennett
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"Why doesn't DOS ever say 'EXCELLENT command or filename'" »Anonymous
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"A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis." »Anonymous
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