"For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be."
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"The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto."
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"When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue."
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"Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language."
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"Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work."
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"Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language."
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"A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state."
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"It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought."
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"A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture."
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"Cómo se acuerda con los pájaros la traducción de sus idiomas?"
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"Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience."
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"There must be a language that doesn't depend on words."
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"Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens."
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"He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words."
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"A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful."
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"Language can be very adept at hiding the truth."
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"Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths."
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"The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension."
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"To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write."
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"Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times."
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