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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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"Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to make language into an independent realm." »Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
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"By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely." »Karl Buhler, 1930
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"Experience becomes possible because of language." »Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
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"As was his language so was his life." »Seneca
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"Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption." »Keith Bostic
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"language is the dress of thought." »Samuel Johnson
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"A different language is a different vision of life." »Federico Fellini
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"Music is the soul of language." »Max Heindel
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"A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own." »Johann von Goethe
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"Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing." »Gyles Lytton Sitrachy
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"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language." »Buck Henry
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"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." »William Butler Yeats
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"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." »Christopher Morley
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"To speak with the shadow, you must know the language of the darkness!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"language is the picture and counterpart of thought." »Mark Hopkins, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." »Galileo Galilei
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