"I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English."
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"Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities."
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"It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength."
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"There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature."
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"My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken."
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"English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression."
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"Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors."
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"The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything."
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"There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics."
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"Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation."
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"We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed."
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"Men's language is as their lives."
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"Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular."
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"Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words."
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"In every language you can imagine I've had people say 'Appetite For Destruction' is the soundtrack to their lives. I don't think you could say something nicer to an entertainer or performer - can't get more respectful."
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"Nature is a language - can't you read?"
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"Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious."
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"Close the language-door, and open the love-window"
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"All language is a longing for home."
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"Love is language that cannot be said, or heard."
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