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Tag Name "Language" (4506)

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The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a war, reduce a lifelong relationship to a collection of memories, or end a life.
Simon Tam
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Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.
William Safire
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Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.
William Saroyan
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
Alan Watts
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In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.
Peter Zumthor
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Silence is the only language god speaks.
Charles Simic
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I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.
James Ransone
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Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.
Alan Rudolph
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The language of religion holds the most currency for the masses.
Reza Aslan
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I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
Seneca the Younger
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I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
Alan Rickman
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In English every word can be verbed.
Alan Perlis
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan Perlis
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In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
Alan Perlis
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A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
Alan Perlis
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When someone says, I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done, give him a lollipop.
Alan Perlis
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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan Perlis
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They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare
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Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.
William Shakespeare
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Ay, is it not a language I speak?
William Shakespeare
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The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word.
Alan Moore
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A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.
Olivier Messiaen
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Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body.
William Shakespeare
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Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
Alan Kay
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