"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
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"Correct English is the slang of prigs."
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"It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth."
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"The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal."
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"The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."
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"All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets."
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"There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail."
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"The precision provided (or enforced) by programming languages and their execution can identify lacunas, ambiguities, and other areas of potential confusion in conventional [mathematical] notation."
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"We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character."
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"The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand."
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"Net - the biggest word in the language of business."
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"I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter."
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"I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up."
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"...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway."
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"I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate."
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"Our vision is every book ever printed in any language [fetched and viewable on our eBook Kindle device] in under 60 seconds."
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"How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language."
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"All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language."
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"You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else."
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"If you love language, it will love you back."
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