Language Quotes
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At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.
Terence McKenna
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The key is that Jesus does want to speak to us-to you-today. In your own language, just as a friend would speak. We simply need to take the time to listen.
Walter Armstrong, III
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If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.
Dean Falk
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Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!
Stephen Sondheim
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Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language of man than any other.
George Sava
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Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.
Tommy Chong
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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
Eudora Welty
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In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
Etgar Keret
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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
Terence McKenna
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The English language is not always the President's friend.
George Will
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What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
Richard Wilson
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Acting is not my language at all.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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It is clear that whatever language of democracy Barack Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests.
Judith Butler
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Music is a language, a universal language.
Sun Ra
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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
Stephen Fry
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German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
Willie Rushton
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We must find a common language and that common language for us is the key of E, English. You understand, right? In music, like in language, we must find common ground. When an orchestra tunes, that common ground is A.
Ari L. Goldman
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What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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My mother tongue is Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.
Mother Teresa