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The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.
Herbert Marcuse
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One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language.
Pattiann Rogers
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Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways.
Mahatma Gandhi
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When I go to photograph somebody, they say, What do you want me to do? Those are the most frightening words in the English language. I want to say, Please, go over into good light and do something unusual.
John Loengard
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I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
Mark Twain
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Truth is the band of union and the basis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no security in promises and oaths.
Jeremy Collier
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On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
Hu Shih
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But people find it easy to take shots on Twitter, and to use racial slurs and bullying language far worse than what you'll see from me. It's sad and somewhat unbelievable to me that the world is still this way, but it is. I can handle it.
Richard Sherman
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I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.
Masiela Lusha
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A change in language can transform our appreciation of the cosmos.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
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Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.
Renata Adler
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The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
George Saintsbury
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My advice to photographers is to get out there in the field and take photographs but also if they are students to finish their course, learn as many languages as possible, go to movies, read books visit museums, broaden your mind.
Martine Franck
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The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.
Steve Sabol
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I love learning languages, and actually computer code is another language as well.
Tang Wei
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Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.
Mark Doty
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Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures.
Osamu Tezuka
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A writer of books has to admit that film is the enemy, and that in my case I have been sleeping with the enemy.
E. L. Doctorow
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I tried to make guitars that were close to what my heroes played. That's the way it's done. My experience is that you have to do it like a musician. You have to learn the language before you can learn to be a novelist.
Paul Reed Smith
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
Roland Barthes
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One of the noblest words in our language is grace, defined as unearned blessing. We live by grace far more than by anything else. Accordingly, I find that the one thing which I want to put into practice in my own life is the conscious and deliberate habit of finding someone to thank.
D. Elton Trueblood
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I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word lost.
Charles Spurgeon
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I'm pretty good with languages.
Marisol Nichols
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