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Good art has everything you need to know about it in the work, not on a wall label. Art is here to take us beyond language.
Walter Darby Bannard
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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Derek Walcott
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And while blood's the only language that your deaf old ears can hear And still you will not answer with that message coming clear Does it mean there's no more ripples in your tired old glory stream And the buzzards own the carcass of your dream?
Harry Chapin
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A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.
Noam Chomsky
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Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.
Jean Berko Gleason
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My particular interest for the past couple of years has been to really think deeply about the big impendence mismatch we have between programming languages, C# in particular, and the database world, like SQL or, for that matter, the XML world, like XQuery and those languages that exist.
Anders Hejlsberg
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While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.
Aristotle
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Language disguises thought.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language which I used in my letter of August 29 to Congressman McDonough concerning the Marine Corps.
Harry S. Truman
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I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.
Pat Mora
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In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain.
Jim Al-Khalili
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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
Ann Patchett
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There's a richness to the old works if you look before the 1950s. The chord progressions and the language was more complicated, especially in the jazz and classical world.
Tori Amos
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We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and edit our language.
Ashley Greene
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I love the Italian culture, it's a beautiful culture. I love the language, the Italian people, their music, their attitudes... I just love it! Sometimes, I think I'm an Italian trapped in a Spanish woman's body.
Penelope Cruz
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If we have to prove our Europeanism by accepting that French is the dominant language in the Community, then my answer is quite clear, and I will say it in French in order to prevent any misunderstanding: Non, merci beaucoup .
James Callaghan
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Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.
Stephane Mallarme
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Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.
Gilles Peress
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If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.
George Steiner
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Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
P. G. Wodehouse
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However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India.
Mahatma Gandhi
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we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.
Erica Jong
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Color and bite permeate a language designed to rally many men, to destroy some, and to change the minds of others.
William Safire
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Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.
Jamake Highwater
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