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"Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken." »Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing
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"The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly." »Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_
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"Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart." »Bill Chickering
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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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"Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one." »Scottish Proverb
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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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"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken." »Orson Scott Card
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"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything." »Ernest J. Gaines
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"Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent." »Heinrich Heine
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"When you hear a kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so." »H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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"What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled." »Earl of Roscommon
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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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"Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general." »Frederick Nietzsche
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"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently." »Saint Augustine
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"Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written -- as long as I keep my senses, at least." »Jane Welsh Carlyle
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"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future." »Gerald R. Ford
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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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