"The eyes have one language everywhere."
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"Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias."
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"It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted."
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"In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE."
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"I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!"
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"In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy."
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"I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone."
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"It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience."
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"Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts."
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"This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor."
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"The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language."
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"The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it."
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"The book of nature is written in the language of mathematics."
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"Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings."
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"Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light."
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"All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third."
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"You can't see other people's point of view when you have only one language."
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"Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?"
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action."
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"Silence is never-ending speech. Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one's thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking."
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