It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
I learned to use language like my mother did. I would simulcast, give you the program in your own tongue. — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
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We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
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In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
“But a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently. You will try every day of your life. Order… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Good girls like myself need subversion. Being solemn, I aspire to comedy. Being a novelist, I aspire to the musical. Being organized,… — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
The northern nations who burst the barriers of the Roman Empire and spread themselves over the most flourishing countries of Europe soon… — Benjamin Robbins Curtis Copy Share Image
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Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America. — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
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To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
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