"The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path."
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"As they say in Discworld, we are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was."
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"The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor."
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"The world is God's language to us."
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"For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears."
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"I speak two languages, Body and English."
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"The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings."
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"There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language."
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"Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers."
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"He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge."
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"Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion."
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"Language is the house of the truth of Being."
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"Mathematics is the language in which the gods talk to people."
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"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 ought to be done, remains undone."
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"Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature."
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"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."
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"Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders."
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"Words fail, there are times when even they fail."
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"Eyes...They speak all languages."
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"...language is not the frosting, it's the cake."
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