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India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs,… — Will Durant
Music is the great cheer-up in the language of all countries. — Clifford Odets
The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of… — Herbert Marcuse
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political… — Jurgen Habermas
Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this… — Martin Heidegger
Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar,… — Hannah Arendt
All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts,… — Julius Caesar
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his… — Robert Fitzgerald
Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring… — Robert Fitzgerald
Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact â€¦ the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard. — William Carlos Williams
The American idiom has much to offer us that the English language has never heard of — William Carlos Williams
In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to… — Debbie Allen
If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates oneâ€™s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the… — Joseph Brodsky
A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state. — Joseph Brodsky
In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and… — Ivan Turgenev
History no longer shall be a dull book. It shall walk incarnate in every just and wise man. You shall not tell me by language… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages. — Bernard Malamud
For us chess players the language of artist is something natural. — Vladimir Kramnik
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect on… — Leon Krier

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