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"158 Language Quotes

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Abuse Ambition American Common
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I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

Accents Different Irish Italian
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I love the language of, you know, the old black country man with a blues guitar and... boots and the quick banter.

Black Blues Boots Country
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Teach a child English, French, German, etc, that's very good. No knowledge is ever a waste. But flogging a child for speaking his or her own language is totally unacceptable. Teach them to appreciate their own. Don't treat them like wild animals for speaking their language.

Teach A child Very good Knowledge
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To think that some of our teachers flogged us back then in school for speaking our language. Calling it vernacular. Can you imagine? You speak your own language you get flogged. All those teachers should be ashamed of themselves. Oyibo people really messed up our brains.

Our teachers Flogged us School Language
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At times, Social Media can be the most unfair interactive platform you would ever imagine exists. Many targets of vile language dare not respond in similar manner due to responsibility or position. And those who use vile language are still hailed as the champions. Sad and strange

At times Social media Most unfair Vile language
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express

Mathematicians Flatter Possess New ideas
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

Writer Speak Language Different
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Woman Define Feelings Language
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It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.

Any logic Our language Trust Letter word
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We think coding should be required in every school because it's as important as any kind of second language.

Think coding Every school Important Kind
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How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and uplift those around you

You speak Words Image Portray
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We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

Persecuted Most civilized languages
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At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.

Every moment Language Your mind
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Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

Speak English Incapable Internet Regarded as
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

Hard indeed Languages available No description
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

Most Disastrous thing You can Ever learn
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I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

Ever talk Words seems Waste Them true
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The tie of language is perhaps the strongest and the most durable that can unite mankind.

Language Strongest Most durable Unite mankind
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

Mastery Languages Affords one Remarkable opportunities
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You can never tell about a person by guessing,that's why language was invented.

Never tell A person By guessing Why language
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Language Power Life Instrument
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Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

Suicide have Special language Like carpenters Why build
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Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Language Exists Record Liberate
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

True Language Incomprehensible Chatter
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The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.

The word Right Excluded from Political language
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… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

Truest Language Process Living element
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To change your language you must change your life.

Change Language Life
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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.

Language Human mind Past Future
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Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words

Words Language Life Love
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All language is an aspiration to music.

Language Aspiration Music
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So speaking a Nigerian language isn’t “tush”?You know this mindset is why a lot of people are not teaching their children their mother tongue. Fear of their kids seeming “razz.”It’s a very backwards mindset you know.

So speaking Language This mindset Not teaching
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye

Language Mind Light Eye
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You need to study and understand your love language with your clients, partners, lovers

Study Understand Love language Your clients
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Language is a virus from outer space

Language Virus Space
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The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way

Damaging Phrase Language Way
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Language dazzles and deceives because it is masked by faces, because we see it emerging from the lips, because lips please and eyes beguile. But words on paper, black on white, reveal the naked soul.

Language Masked Reveal Soul
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words

Life Language Achieve Words
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Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

Everything Writing Language Listening
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To create a past that seemed authentic but would be a fiction, you need an invented language.

Create Past Fiction Language
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Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Language Truth Lie Precise
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Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

Language Finding Place Hiding
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I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

Language People Art Understand
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Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

Unkind Language Suffering Bosom
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Every language belongs to a specific place. It can migrate, it can spread. But usually it’s tied to a geographical territory, a country.

Language Migrate Territory Country
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Because in the end to learn a language, to feel connected to it, you have to have a dialogue, however childlike, however imperfect.

Learn Language Dialogue Imperfect
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Multilingualism is part of the experience of growing up in Africa.

Multilingualism Is part The experience Growing up
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The ability to think for one’s self depends upon one’s mastery of the language

Ability Think Mastery Language
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Unfortunately we have become accustomed to measuring people's intelligence by the way they speak English, which isn't right! Being able to communicate in more than one language is, to me, a measure of intellectual capacity.

Become accustomed Measuring People's intelligence Speak English
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I can't count how any times I've been mocked for speaking Igbo with an English language.No wonder the language is dying. We refuse to allow our things evolve. We are too purist. Its stifles growth.

Been mocked For speaking Language Things evolve
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