"I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person."
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"The real problem in speech is not precise language. The problem is clear language."
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"Every language has its own music."
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"paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality."
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"When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility."
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"Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds."
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"Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language."
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"those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either."
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"Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular."
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"The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions."
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"Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners."
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"Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow."
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"Human language is nothing like the signalling systems of other animals."
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"By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every speaker of a language has mastered and internalized a generative grammar that expresses his knowledge of his language. This is not to say that he is aware of the rules of the grammar or even that he can become aware of them, or that his statements about his intuitive knowledge of the language are necessarily accurate."
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"When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets."
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"He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced."
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"If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now."
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"The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life."
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"No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead."
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"The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen."
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