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In Algeria, I had begun to get into literature and philosophy. I dreamed of writing-and already models were instructing the dream, a certain language governed it.
Jacques Derrida
Algeria
Begun
Certain
Dream
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No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
Jacques Derrida
Angry
Foreign
Foreign Language
Gets
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The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.
Jacques Derrida
Does
Dominant
Even
First
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Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Summer afternoon
Most beautiful
Words
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The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That is one of the things that will happen to all distortions: They become normal and turn into something else.
Jamaica Kincaid
Become
Distortion
Else
English
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.
Roland Barthes
Against
Desire
Fingers
Had
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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
Both
Confront
Excessive
Hysteria
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It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with.
James Cameron
Act
Actor
Bit
Give
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The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
James Fenimore Cooper
Abuse
Ambition
American
Common
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All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
Rudolf Steiner
Become
Begins
Incomprehensible
Language
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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.
James McBride
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.
Yul Edochie
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.
Yul Edochie
Our teachers
Flogged us
School
Language
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Until we start accepting and appreciating our languages, tribes, traditions and learn to preserve the village setup,which is slowly losing importance because of modern day civilization. We shall forever be foreign but in our black skin.
Jay Rox
Our languages
Tribes
Traditions
Black skin
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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
Festus Keyamo
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
James Clerk Maxwell
Mathematicians
Flatter
Possess
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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.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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.
Thomas Hardy
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.
Tom Cruise
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.
Tim Cook
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
Thomas S. Monson
You speak
Words
Image
Portray
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We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison
We die
Meaning
Life
Do language
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We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.
Bernard Malamud
Persecuted
Most civilized languages
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We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars,We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality
Bashar al-Assad
Facing
External attack
More dangerous
Previous wars
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At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.
Bodhidharma
Every moment
Language
Your mind
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The game’s language happens to be money, and therefore, it seems to be like gambling.
Al Alvarez
Game's language
Be money
Like gambling
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We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.
Alan Watts
Private thought
Emotions
Our own
Languages
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It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
Alan Watts
Hard indeed
Languages available
No description
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
Alan Kay
Protean nature
Computer
Act like
Machine
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
Alan Kay
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.
Aleister Crowley
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.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Language
Strongest
Most durable
Unite mankind
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
Alexandre Dumas
Happy man
Prayer
Sorrows comes
Sublime language
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
Alexandre Dumas
Mastery
Languages
Affords one
Remarkable opportunities
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We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
Alison Lurie
Lie
Langauge
Dress
Truth
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You can never tell about a person by guessing,that's why language was invented.
Alice Hoffman
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.
Angela Carter
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.
Anne Sexton
Suicide have
Special language
Like carpenters
Why build
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I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.
Anne Rice
Thought
Knew
Beauty
Women
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Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.
Anthony Burgess
Language
Exists
Record
Liberate
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All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
Antonin Artaud
True
Language
Incomprehensible
Chatter
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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra Behn
Money
Speaks
Sense
Language
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The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.
Auguste Comte
The word
Right
Excluded from
Political language
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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
Life
Foreign language
All men
Mispronounce it
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… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…
Derek Walcott
Truest
Language
Process
Living element
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To change your language you must change your life.
Derek Walcott
Change
Language
Life
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If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Doug Larson
English language
Any sense
Lackadaisical
A shortage
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Every man prays in his own language.
Duke Ellington
Every man
Prays
Own language
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The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
Douglas William Jerrold
The language
Women
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Not voluminous
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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
Language
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Future
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