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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 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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"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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"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language." »Henry David Thoreau
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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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"What greater grief than the loss of one's native land." »Euripides
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"What you have in your mind, your talents, your native abilities, no one can take from you. When you die you take them with you. Use them diligently while you are here." »Alfred A. Montapert
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"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." »Mark Twain
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"Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof." »Thomas Fuller
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"But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance." »William Shakespeare
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"I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it--and forget not those who have fallen during the night! (Noli Me Tangere)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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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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"The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be." »Saint Jerome
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"This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand." »Aristophanes
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"Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage." »Ronald Reagan
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"American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism." »James Harvey Robinson
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"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent." »Smiley Blanton
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"True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle." »Hugh Blair
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"The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt." »Jesse Louis Jackson
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"Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most native Americans, they don't think of time as linear in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time." »Robin Green
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"As was his language so was his life." »Seneca
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"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language." »Buck Henry
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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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"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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"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." »William Butler Yeats
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