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Chimpanzees are incredibly intelligent. They can learn more than 400 signs of American Sign Language. They have memories for spatial distribution, like… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
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I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We have found that companies need to speak a common language because some of the suggested ways to harness disruptive innovation are… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
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Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem… — Luis von Ahn Copy Share Image
It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
One of the great events in my life was my first meeting with Edison. This wonderful man, who had received no scientific… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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“Do you know why God invented writers? Because he loves a good story. And he doesn't give a damn about the words.… — J.R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Whether it's a professional, academic keeping people out by using certain mystifying language, or technologists presenting their work as incredibly complicated, no… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Fuzzy logic will produce a computer that will even seem to have a personality. It will seem to have a character. It… — Owsley Stanley Copy Share Image
We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“I circled a few misspelled words, then handed it back to Theo. “Do these words mean anything to you?” “Nights. Reed. Hour.… — C. Rae D'Arc Copy Share Image
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Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music, in its true essence, has got no language. You don't listen to anybody because he is black or white or because… — Adnan Sami Copy Share Image
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High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
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I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
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Sunshine takes its intelligent and honourable place in the history of grownup science fiction on the screen and on the page: a… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
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“When we were little, Eric and Fitz and I invented a language. I've forgotten most of it, with the exception of a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying, 'Let's see how many words you know,' is different from saying, 'Let's see… — Peter Johnston Copy Share Image
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
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