Languages Quotes
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Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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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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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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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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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"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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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
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Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.
Bruce Willis
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At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.
Cullen Murphy
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His best-selling book, The Goal, has sold over 6 million copies and has been translated into 35 languages. It continues to be required reading in major business schools.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.
Bono
U2
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People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!
Sergei Bubka