"I can ask for cigarettes in every language"
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"Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises."
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"Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?"
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"Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning."
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"Speak any language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, but always speak with love"
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"Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden."
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"Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge."
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"He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own."
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"By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom."
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"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."
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"Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available."
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"It`s one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives."
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"Only where there is language is there world."
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"The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel."
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"Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live."
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"Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many."
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"Language is fossil Poetry."
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"We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it."
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"I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry."
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"In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him."
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