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There are many more languages than we think: and man betrays himself more often than he desires. How things speak! - but there are very… — Unknown Author
The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with… — Milton H. Erickson
All words, in every language, are metaphors. — Marshall McLuhan
Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new… — Marshall McLuhan
In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and… — Shirley Hazzard
When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language. — Alan Garner
The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain… — Judith Butler
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience,… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Language forms a kind of wealth, which all can make use of at once without causing any diminution of the store, and which thus admits… — Auguste Comte
Sunday, the day for the language of leisure. — Elfriede Jelinek
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language — Elfriede Jelinek
After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is,… — Thomas Merton
Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and… — Maria Tatar
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the… — Byron White
In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it… — Brian Tracy
Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language. — Ed Markey
Nature is a language - can't you read? — Steven Morrissey
If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph,… — Martin Parr
Christians often equate holiness with activism and spiritual disciplines. And while it's true that activism is often the outgrowth of holiness and spiritual disciplines are… — Kevin DeYoung
The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language. — Alan Kay

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