"There is your audience. There is the language. There are the words that they use."
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"The best thing on translation was said by Cervantes: translation is the other side of a tapestry."
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"Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness."
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"Language disguises thought."
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"My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness."
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"Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes."
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"Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know."
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"Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull."
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"Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language."
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"Armenian is the language to speak with God."
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"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."
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"You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing."
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"Language is a very difficult thing to put into words."
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"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda."
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"If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better."
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"The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner."
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"Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism."
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"I speak only one language, and it is not my own."
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"I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves."
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"...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars"
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