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A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.
J. L. Austin
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Christ is Lord of all. This truth implies that he is lord of language, lord of grammar, lord of history, and lord or interpretive principles. We cannot just take things over unchanged from the world around us. We should be thinking through and living through the implications of Christ's lordship in every sphere of life.
Vern Poythress
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The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.
Stephen Fry
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To use biblical language, those who exchange the glory of God for something in creation will also exchange the image of God for something in creation - and because it is something less than God, it always leads to a lower view of humanity.
Nancy Pearcey
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Language is a nice way to remember things.
Erin McKean
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A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation.
Thomas Davis
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We possess books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves.
David L. Ulin
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It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
Douglas Hyde
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We have to come back to something like ordinary language after all when we want to talk about mathematics!
Harold Jeffreys
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The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language.
Ilya Prigogine
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Words are the weak support of cold indifference love has no language to be heard.
William Congreve
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Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.
John Lydon
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...he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke-the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.
Paulo Coelho
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[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.
Steven Levy
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Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.
Ernest Istook
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Abstraction is an esoteric language.
Eric Fischl
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Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
Mark Twain
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot
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Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.
Ben Jonson
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If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Doug Larson
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You know, I think music is very interactive. It's a - it's a language.
Jake Shimabukuro
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A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.
Daniel Dennett
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The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
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C is declining somewhat in usage compared to C++, and maybe Java, but perhaps even more compared to higher-level scripting languages. It's still fairly strong for the basic system-type things.
Dennis Ritchie
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