"What are your Axioms, and Categories, and Systems, and Aphorisms? Words, words.... Be not the slave of Words."
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"A people without a language of its own, is only half a nation."
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"I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science."
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"Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions."
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"Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan."
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"Doing TV is a different kind of language."
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"We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth."
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"Once I started singing, I realized it was a language I'd forgotten I could speak."
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"The language of truth is unvarnished enough."
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"Simple is the language of truth."
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"Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language."
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"Mathematics is a language plus reasoning. It's like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning."
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"If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song."
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"Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples."
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"English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships."
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"I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed."
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"Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us."
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"Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words."
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"Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind."
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"The die-hard opinions of George III couched in the language of Edmund Burke."
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