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SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions. The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and… — John Sladek
All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both… — Bart Stupak
We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per… — Bart Stupak
The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which… — Max Von Sydow
I can teach you how to speak my language - Rosetta Stone — Drake
Advertising practitioners are interpreters. But unlike foreign language interpreters, adpeople must constantly learn new languages. They must understand the language of each new product, and… — Jef I Richards
[He] intuitively choreographed his motions with a body language that projected the image of an eager, bouncy terrier. His walk was jaunty and his manner… — Unknown Author
That (separation of church and state) was never in the Constitution, however much the liberals laugh at me for saying it, they know good and… — Pat Robertson
Duty is the sublimest word in our language. — Robert E. Lee
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little… — John Locke
The language of economics is seldom limpid, but in H Street they usually manage to remove from it the very last flickering colophon of charm. — Jan Morris
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. — Mark Twain
The habitude of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional — Walter Savage Landor
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. — Thomas Hardy
The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high — Japanese Proverb
Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes… — Unknown Author
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean — Robert Louis Stevenson
It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear — Douglas Adams
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them — Stephen King
Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery — Unknown Author

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