“Change
your language and you change your thoughts.”
-- Karl Albrecht
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"We
may have different religions, different languages,
different colored skin, but we all belong to one
human race."
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High
thoughts must have high language.
-- Aristophanes
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In
making a speech one must study three points: first,
the means of producing persuasion; second, the language;
third the proper arrangement of the various parts
of the speech.
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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.
-- James Baldwin
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"Kindness
is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can
understand."
-- C.N. Bovee
The
most important word in the language of the working class
is "solidarity."
-- Harry Bridges
Language
is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument
of domination and liberation.
-- Angela Carter
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Like
music and art, love of nature is a common language
that can transcend political or social boundaries.
~
Jimmy Carter
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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
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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.”
-- Noam Chomsky
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Let
us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity;
and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration
of language, nationality, or religion.
-- John Comenius, 17th century philosopher
“If
language is not correct, then what is said is not what
is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then
what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone,
morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray,
the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence
there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This
matters above everything.”
-- Confucius
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There's
an aspect of human nature in which we want to
think we're better than somebody else. They're
a different color. They speak a different language.
They have a different name for the Creator. Whatever
it is, that makes it okay for me to hate them,
to try to get some of their land or some of their
resources.
~ John Denver
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Most
of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially
simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a
language comprehensible to everyone.
-- Albert Einstein
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Real
change comes when people are enabled to use their
thinking and their energy in a new way, using
a different system of thought, different language,
and having fresh visions of the future.
-- Scilla Elworthy
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A
different language is a different vision of life.
~Federico Fellini
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Music
happens to be an art form that transcends language.
-- Herbie Hancock
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Language
is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and
out of which they grow.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Every
individual is at once the beneficiary and the
victim of the linguistic tradition into which
he has been born...
~ Aldous Huxley
Every
individual is at once the beneficiary and the
victim of the linguistic tradition into which
he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch
as language gives access to the accumulated records
of other people's experience, the victim in so
far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced
awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils
his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt
to take his concepts for data, his words for actual
things.
~ Aldous Huxley
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Thanks
to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes;
and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level
of the demons.
~ Aldous Huxley
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To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance
and soothing language.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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Language
is the dress of thought.
~Samuel Johnson
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“Occasionally
in life there are those moments of unutterable
fulfillment which cannot be completely explained
by those symbols called words. Their meanings
can only be articulated by the inaudible language
of the heart.”
--
Martin Luther
King, Jr
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If
you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his
language, that goes to his heart.
-- Nelson Mandela
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Our
native language is like a second skin, so much a part
of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing,
constantly being renewed.
-- Casey Miller
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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
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I
thought it was respectful to each country to sing
in their language.
-- Nana Mouskouri
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"We
are at a time in our country's history that inclusive
language is better than exclusive language."
-- Barack Obama
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The
great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
--George Orwell
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I
remain convinced that obstinate addiction to
ordinary language in our private thoughts is
one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
-- Bertrand
Russell
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Language is the source of misunderstandings.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Language
is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential
process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond
the commonplace experiences of everyday life.”
-- Charles Scribner, Jr.
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Any
classification according to a singular identity
polarizes people in a particular way, but if we
take note of the fact that we have many different
identities - related not just to religion but
also to language, occupation and business, politics,
class and poverty, and many others - we can see
that the polarization of one can be resisted by
a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding
are extremely important to fight against singular
polarization.
-- Amartya
Sen
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You
probably know that many of the world's plants
and animals are in danger of extinction, but did
you know that many human languages are in danger
of becoming extinct, too? Globalization has helped
to make the world a smaller place. But it has
also contributed to the loss of many languages
around the world. Every two weeks another language
disappears forever! Once a language is lost, humanity
loses a part of our rich heritage. Helping to
preserve endangered languages is important to
keep traditions alive.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein
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Language
helps form the limits of our reality.
-- Dale Spender
The
quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by
our facility with language.
-- J. Michael Straczynski
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The
language of friendship is not words but meanings.
-- Henry David
Thoreau
The
language of excitement is at best picturesque
merely. You must be calm before you can utter
oracles.
-- Henry David
Thoreau
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Kindness
is the language which the deaf can hear and the
blind can see.
-- Mark Twain
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As
societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent,
too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate,
action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words
are to confuse, so that at election time people will
solemnly vote against their own interests.
-- Gore Vidal
"There
are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality,
language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so
do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation,
and support from others. We need to understand our environment
and our relationship to it. We need to fulfill certain
inner hungers: the need for happiness, for peace of
mind -- for wisdom."
-- J. Donald Walters
A
warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
-- William A. Ward
“Language
is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of
dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the
work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long
generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and
low, close to the ground”
-- Noah Webster
On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change
without any political message whatsoever
but in its form and language can tell people that they
can change their lives
and contribute to progressive changes in the world.
-- Wim Wenders
“The
limits of my language mean the limits of my world”
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Think
like a wise man but communicate in the language of the
people.”
-- William Butler Yeats
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