"And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in."
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"Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language."
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"The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being."
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"The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence."
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"One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other."
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"It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other."
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"Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials."
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"Language is the source of misunderstandings."
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"For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language."
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"All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country."
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"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."
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"Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms."
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"We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language."
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"Languages are the pedigree of nations."
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"Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history."
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"If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless."
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"Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty."
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"No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge"
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"Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries."
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"The language of truth is simple."
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