Language Quotes

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In the long run, the replacement of the precise and disciplined language of science by the misleading language of litigation and advocacy may be one… — Richard Lindzen
If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds… — Frederick Douglass
Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who they are. You… — Eckhart Tolle
We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion. — Bart Stupak
To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a… — Ernst Cassirer
The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language. — Frederick Buechner
Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and… — Neil Postman
How is this any different than the big boat argument of people when it came to African-Americans after the Civil War, decided, 'Put them on… — Chris Matthews
Then they ask, "Do you want Jesus to come into your heart?" Does it bother anyone that this formula or language is not found in… — Paul Washer
Love can be understood only "from the inside," as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be… — Robert C. Solomon
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a… — Adrienne Rich
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all. — George Eliot
What do you say? There really are no words for that. There really aren't. Somebody tries to say, 'I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.' People say… — Toni Morrison
In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the… — Charles Dickens
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. — Ammianus Marcellinus
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks… — Gaston Bachelard
It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration. — Terry Eagleton
We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As we exercise the right to… — William J. Clinton
The natural sciences are sometimes said to have no concern with values, nor to seek morality and goodness, and therefore belong to an inferior order… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the… — Ronald Reagan

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