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" Quotes and Sayings About language

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

Find Languages Love Own
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.

Poet Love Person Before
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I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

Bible Everyday Feel Gifted
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It is clear that the only language the zoo called Nigeria understands is war and death and we are ready for war

Zoo Nigeria Death War
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Country Defined Every Food
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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

Motivation Believe Philosophical
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By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

Concealing Language Large Tool
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'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

Am Could English English Language
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It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.

Objective Proof God Existence
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Abstract Attempts Escape Essential
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

Great His Language Limits
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Power Above Universe Relationship
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Contains Control Describing Every
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I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to believe me.

Believe Friends Language Literary
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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

Cycles Process Vision Remains
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

America Countries England Language
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I speak two languages, Body and English.

Speak Two Languages Body
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Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

Author Everyone Everywhere Exists
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
Also Corrupt Corrupts Language
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Aims Between Clear Enemy
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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

About Bring Chaos Connected
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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

Appearance Designed Give Language
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God's language is fire. He speaks fire.

Speak Fire God Language
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God is a consuming fire not an ice block. God's personality is fire, His language is fire. When appeared to Moses, He appeared in the form of fire, when He came to rescue Elisha, He came with chariots of flaming fire.

Rescue Fire Came Form
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

About He I Wish Know
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

Been Begin Children Could
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I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Allegory Any Attempt Conscious
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.

Almost Any As Far As Attention
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Language Principles Generation Interpretation
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Human Language Phenomenon Analogue
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Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.

Word Procrastination Language
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I'm not trying to be a poet on Twitter; I'm trying to be aware of the fact that a very simple sentence, well written, can have a very moving effect without that person knowing why. There's a deep genetic part of you that somehow, even without your permission, recognizes good language when it arrives.

Aware Deep Effect Even
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My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.
America Better Come English
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Think Man Communicate Language
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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

About Kind Language Make
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I try to always motivate young kids who want to be singers or actors or whatever it is they want to be that anything is possible with hard work. It doesn't matter where you're from or what language you speak - as long as you work hard, you can achieve those goals.

Achieve Actor Always Anything
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Spanish is my second language. When I started, I was doing interviews in Spanish and had to catch up.

Catch Doing Had Interviews
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Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.

Bears Beat Cracked Dance
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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.

Alone Being Born Handicap
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.

Am Anymore Because Cuban
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A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

Warm Smile Universal Language
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

Goes Hands Language Rolls
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“Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word.”

Better Language Pound Words
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Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

Accompany Because Europeans Heavy
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

Better English First Foreign
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I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.

Allowed Anywhere Arabia Because
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Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And L.A. is the 'What party?' capital of the world.

Capital English English Language Language
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The chief merit of language is clearness.

Chief Merit Language Clearness
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“A different language is a different vision of life.”

Different Language Vision Life
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“Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.”

Talking Dream Movies Cinema
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