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"The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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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"I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War." »Al Capone
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"Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead." »Jerry Gillies
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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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"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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"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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"Its embarrassing, you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on a Best Sellers List." »Abbie Hoffman, In response to the success of his book; Steal this Book
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"An income tax form is like a laundry list -- either way you lose your shirt." »Fred Allen
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"“Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow!"" »Steve Maraboli
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"Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." »Robert Orben
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"The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three." »Alice Kahn
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"The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79....." »Douglas Noel Adams
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"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things." »Dorothy Parker
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"The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79." »Douglas Adams
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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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"If you had to list the different types of haircuts in order of how warm they kept the head, you'd probably put the flat-top down near the bottom. But you know, I bet it's surprisingly warm." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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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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"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me." »Walt Whitman
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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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"Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair." »F Scott
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