Language Quotes
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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.
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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.
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What language are you talking in now? It appears to be bollocks.
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If I walk into a room of 500 people, my standard is, if I can't give 400 or 450 of you something, a language or a new way of seeing something, then I have failed. If I get 100 of you, I am a failure. I have to get a majority.
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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
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Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.
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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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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.
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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
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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.
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The English language is not always the President's friend.
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We gave you a perfectly good language and you f***ed up.
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If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.
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Music is a language, a universal language.
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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.
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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?
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.
