"Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful."
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"A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail."
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"I think music is another language."
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"We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much."
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"Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion."
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"A language is a map of our failures"
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"Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal."
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"The language you are about to hear... is disturbing."
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"I think the most annoying language is a tie between all the ones I don't know how to speak."
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"Good music is very close to primitive language."
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"It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism."
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"Language is butchered by the media"
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"I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth."
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"Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough."
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"[Albert Camus] really did know Algeria. He was an exile from his country, but still living in its language. Solitaire et solidaire. It's not like those who are exiled to a country where the language is not theirs."
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"It is not quite true to say that I am not an advocate of writing in African languages. What I think is, one has to think about what is practicable."
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"There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too."
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"We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story."
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"You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it's the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there's not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed."
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"The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages."
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