"I gave up language for a while, and I started painting.And then I only listened to Miles Davis and other instrumental music to see how it felt to be without words."
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"Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language."
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"In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute."
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"Empathy is even better than talking in one language"
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"This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service."
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"My love of the British is equal to that of my own people."
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"I have drawn from the well of language many a thought which I do not have and which I could not put into words."
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"Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy."
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"Money is a miraculous thing. It is your personal energy reduced to a portable form and endowed with power you yourself do not possess. It can go where you cannot go; speak languages you cannot speak; lift burdens you cannot touch with your fingers; save lives with which you cannot deal directly."
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"A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink slowly, mindlessly, into herstory rather than history because most rapists are men, aren't they?"
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"Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think."
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"Plainly, children learn their language. I don't speak Swahili. And it cannot be that my language is 'an innate property of our brain.' Otherwise I would have been genetically programmed to speak (some variety of) English."
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"American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless."
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"I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and hundreds of others."
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"If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own."
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"Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own."
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"Words are containers for power"
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"The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression."
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"Art is no longer anything more than a kind of meta-language for banality."
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"Power floats like money, like language, like theory."
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