Languages Quotes
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"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.
Bertrand Meyer
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The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.
Soren Kierkegaard
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In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.
Itzhak Perlman
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I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.
Miranda July
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His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it, in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.
Charles Dickens
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Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world
Repeats the passage of the universe
To God; the name of Christ--the one great word
Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.
Philip James Bailey
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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
MF DOOM
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I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.
Eliot Paulina Sumner
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There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be found in any other language.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
Friedrich Nietzsche
