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Compassion is for the very strong. Compassion does not come to the weak. People who are unkind, bullies, use rude language, are not strong people.… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains. — Dean Falk
The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for… — Don Kates
Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Invent a new language anyone can understand. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages. — Cullen Murphy
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right. — Black Hawk
Love will find its way through all languages on its own. — Unknown Author
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language. — Gail Godwin
All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find… — John D. Barrow
The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms. — Frank Griswold
The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once… — Richard Stallman
And that is the trouble with all lovers: they want more love, because they don't understand that the real desire is not for more love,… — Rajneesh
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if… — Philip Khuri Hitti
Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom. — Unknown Author
The second effort was spreading the word among the people, first, in a bid to raise their morale, and second to instil in them a… — Hassan Nasrallah
The only true language in the world is a kiss. — Alfred de Musset
There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like… — Densey Clyne
Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers… — Russell Means
The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and… — Lyndon B. Johnson

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