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Defunctus adhuc loquitur” (Hebrews 11:4). Thanks to language, there is meaning, there is truth.

—Rob Riemen

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Musicians do not have to be believed in. We do not have to be trusted. Our Music speaks for itself without the listener having to know anything about us. Music touches people’s emotions in a...

—Victor L.

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LanguageMusicUniversality
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In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it’s like learning another language.

—Ron Jaworski

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CareerLanguage
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Spanish—how shall I say this?—is likePortuguese spoken with a speech impediment.

—Sol Luckman

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BrazilBrazilianComedy
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Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a...

—Stephen Fry

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They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

—Zora Neale

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LanguageReciprocal
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The language of the heartIs the only languageThat everybody can understand.

—Sri Chinmoy

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HeartLanguage
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Walkers are ‘practitioners of the city,’ for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from...

—Rebecca Solnit

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ArchitectureCitiesLanguage
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Not long ago, I advertised for perverse rules of grammar, along the lines of “Remember to never split an infinitive” and “The passive voice should never be used.” The notion of making a mistake while...

—William Safire

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One should always cite what one does not understand at all in the language one understands the least.

—Voltaire

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Women is a beautiful language every man should learn to speak !

—Bazil Patel

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Love and translation look alike in their grammar. To love someone implies transforming their words into ours. Making an effort to understand the other person and, inevitably, to misinterpret them. To construct a precarious language...

—Andrés Neuman

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GrammarLanguageLove
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Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

—Aldo Leopold

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The Hawaiian language needs to be studied globally as a language of life.

—Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

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Clover[‘s] eyes are full of language.

—Anne Sexton

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He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak...

—Angela Carter

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Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language that my fucking heart does.

—Anis Mojgani

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Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.

—David Brin

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She didn’t know that all her life would be spent gambling with the stark rigidity of words, words that were coin: save, spend and all the time George with his own counter had found her...

—H.D.

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The Economist is undoubtedly the smartest weekly newsmagazine in the English language. I always look forward to its quirky year-end double issue.

—Eric Alterman

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EnglishForwardLanguage
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The words sounded like a mournful incantation.

—Dan Simmons

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IncantationLanguageMagic
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Words in the head are sticky and social creatures – when you finally pull one out, you’re liable to get lots of bits of meanings that have rubbed onto them as a result of their...

—Greg Carlson

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AssumptionsBiasesConnotations
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stressed out”.

—David Sedaris

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One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the higher status...

—James W. Pennebaker

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When, then, I think about the impression that the word makes upon me, how it is affecting me with the knowledge of itself, then I am what I should call self-conscious of the word—conscious not...

—George MacDonald

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What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.

—George Orwell

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EnglishLanguageNon-Fictional
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The history of prescriptions about English … is in part a history of bogus rules, superstitions, half-baked logic, groaningly unhelpful lists, baffling abstract statements, false classifications, contemptuous insiderism and educational malfeasance. But it is also...

—Henry Hitchings

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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

—J.L. Austin

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LanguageLastWord
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He is employed by the Holland Group, which provides staffing for our substitute teachers, … He apparently used some inappropriate language and called a student ‘heathen.’

—James Evans

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Language
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The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought a Spanish grammar and dictionary. He set out again across town...

—Georges Limbour

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LanguageWords
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Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

—Ferdinand de

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LanguageLearningSpace
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We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual narratives in our heads.So too often what passes for literary criticism is “I...

—John Green

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The fact is, that for the Huichol, and for all those who refuse, who are in flight, words and things are precisely what language does not speak about. Language is a natural act which implies...

—Jean-Marie G.

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First of all, I want to start off with a profound abject apology for my language yesterday.

—Jim Boeheim

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Language
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In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.

—Nataly Kelly

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When people are warm, they cannot stand picking terms.

—Maria Edgeworth

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We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

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Language
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

—Lalu Prasad

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LanguagePublicService
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[T]hat all seekers of knowledge should use the identical language to think and to read and write is not a development to which humanity can remain indifferent. Reality is constructed by languages, and the existence...

—Minae Mizumura

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LanguageRealityTruth
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I’m really fascinated and you know I’ve been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

—Kathy Acker

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FascinatedLanguage
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Feelings or Emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are in your deepest place.

—Judith Wright

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It says a lot about Sandberg’s brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important issues that have real impact on women and girls

—Jessica Roy

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Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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LanguageLinguistics
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Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.

—Pádraig Pearse

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Although Russia and China have resisted the strong language of the U.N. resolution, the vote is expected to pass,

—Pamela Falk

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Language
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…that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.

—Salman Rushdie

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

—Oscar Wilde

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A foolish German had said that man thought in words. It was totally false; a pernicious doctrine; the thoughts flashed into being in a hundred simultaneous forms, with a thousand associations, and the speaking mind...

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LanguageMindThinking
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(on the word “fuck”)’Oh, come on, Mum,’ I sighed at her protest. ‘It’s just an old Anglo-Saxon word for the female organ which has been adopted by an inherently misogynist language as a negative epithet....

—Simon Pegg

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That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don’t notice the threshold has been crossed.

—Siri Hustvedt

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