"As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man."
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"So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English."
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"Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us."
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"If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code."
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"An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say."
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"I support local solutions to illegal immigration as protected by the 10th amendment. I support making English the official language of all documents and contracts."
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"I don't think in any language. I think in images."
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"Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties."
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"Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought."
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"Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language."
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"If we had no language we'd have nothing."
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"Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it."
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"If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree."
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"Speak with the language of love."
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"I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine."
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"I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice."
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"I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language than there are in this dictionary."
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"I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk."
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"I love language as I love life itself!"
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"Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life."
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