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I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in.
Mahmoud Darwish
Here
There
Two
Names
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Mahmoud Darwish
Stars
Task
Taught
Read
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I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects, these jets.
Mahmoud Darwish
Language
Transforms
Steel
Spirit
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Malala Yousafzai
Language
Discrimination
Speak
Skin
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War is what happens when language fails.
Margaret Atwood
Fails Happens
Language
War
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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.
Maria Montessori
Between
Development
Establishing
Expressing
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When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
Maria Montessori
Age
Begins
Child
Circumstance
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The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
Maria Montessori
Anything
Ever
Language
Learn
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The child, merely by going on with his life, learns to speak the language belonging to his race. It is like a mental chemistry that takes place in the child.
Maria Montessori
Belonging
Chemistry
Child
Going
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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two 'languages.' It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.
Maria Montessori
Aloud
AsFarAs
Books
Combination
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I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
Irvine Welsh
Almost
Beat
Best
Best Way
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
J. M. Coetzee
After
Claims
Diligently
Elizabeth
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When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.
Niels Bohr
Atoms
Concerned
Creating
Describing
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The problem we face is that the word holy is foreign to all languages. No dictionary is adequate to the task.
R. C. Sproul
Problem
We face
Word
Foreign
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
Orson Scott Card
Languages
Liars
Speak
Who
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Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
Patti Smith
After
Drawings
Getting
Handwriting
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I get a lot of comics, and I can look at a comic and tell immediately whether I'll enjoy it or not. There are elements in the stories that I have no rapport with. I see dirty language, I see sleazy backgrounds; I see it reflected in the movies, the movies are comics to me. And I don't see a sleazy world. I see hope. I see a positive world.
Jack Kirby
Dirty
World
Language
Comic
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Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
Alone
Being
BeingAlone
Created
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
Alone
Being
BeingAlone
Created
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Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate.
Paul Tillich
Able
Alone
Because
Concern
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
Karl Lagerfeld
Because
Before
Brought
English
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... you are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind.
Garrison Keillor
You
Never
Language
Middle age
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Whilst it is perfectly in order to constructively criticize public officers’ official actions and policies, it is absolutely wrong to make judgments about people’s characters to the extent of using foul language to describe them without having personal interactions with them.
Festus Keyamo
Perfectly
Constructively criticize
Public officers
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The eyes have one language everywhere.
George Herbert
Eyes
One language
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Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
George Herbert
Take all
Wealth
Love
Language
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Ray Charles
Else
Entertainment
Fact
In Fact
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown
Hidden
Language
Like
Moon
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Rita Dove
Distilled
Language
Most
Poetry
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I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
Rita Dove
About
Because
Elements
Language
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To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?
George Moore
Better purpose
Devoted
Talents
Resuscitation
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I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.
George Moore
Believe
Universal religion
Language
Feeling
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Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.
George Sand
Nature
Speak
Intelligence
Language
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I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.
Jordan Peterson
Am
Detest
Going
I Am
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley
Command
Drawing
English
EnglishLanguage
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it
Harper Lee
Bad language
Children
Dies
Learn
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
Asking
Barely
Child
He
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It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.
Marcus Samuelsson
Another
Fascinating
Language
Place
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language
Limits
Means
World
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Against
Battle
Intelligence
Language
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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Between
Everything
Found
Grammar
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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Complicated
Language
Less
Organism
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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language
Misleading
Most
Our
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The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Behavior
Common
Interpret
Language
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You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Concept
Language
Learned
Pain
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Lucille Clifton
Just
Language
Life
Matter
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Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
Jackson Browne
Banjo
English
English Language
Heard
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All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dead
Finds
Language
Prepared
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I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.
Ruth Negga
Always
Am
Any
Because
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If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
Jacques Chirac
Country
Creations
Economically
Generation
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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
Jacques Derrida
Entered
Language
Scene
Soon
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