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Tag Name "Language" (4506)

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TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it.
Jennifer Stone
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The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
Lord Byron
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It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?
Voltaire
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That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.
Jeanette Winterson
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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
Joseph Joubert
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There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Charles Baudelaire
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The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George Eliot
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President Obama said that if he could have any superpower, he'd want the ability to speak any language. That's so everyone in the world could tell him he picked one of the lamest possible superpowers.
Jimmy Fallon
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In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.
Rumi
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
Edward Victor Appleton
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Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I think of earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice just how foolish international friction is and the would be put an end to it.
Akira Kurosawa
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The diversity of language alienates man from man
Saint Augustine
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If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.
M. Scott Peck
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If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
Terence McKenna
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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings
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I kind of do this awkward body language because, growing up, I had a really hard time expressing myself vocally.
Analeigh Tipton
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Armstrong was the key creator of the mature working language of jazz. Three decades after his death and more than three-quarters of a century since his influence first began to spread, not a single musician who has mastered that language fails to make daily use, knowingly or unknowingly, of something that was invented by Louis Armstrong.
Dan Morgenstern
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
Daniel Alarcon
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Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
Bertrand Russell
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One thing I've learned - and I've said this to Republicans and Democrats - is, bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time. They have to make a choice. Either they are going to be a stinger or a honey-maker, and I contend that honey is a symbol of legislation and, the nuclear language used by members is the stinger, and you can't do both.
Emanuel Cleaver
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Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis.
Noam Chomsky
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The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.
Marisa Silver
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