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Music is not a language. Any musical piece is akin to a boulder with complex forms, with striations and engraved designs atop and within, which… — Iannis Xenakis
Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are… — Ken Robinson
We need to eliminate the existing hierarchy of subjects. Elevating some disciplines over others only reinforces outmoded assumptions of industrialism and offends the principle of… — Ken Robinson
Reality is beyond speech and thought. Only that which can be expressed in words is being said. But what cannot be put intoÂ language is… — Anandamayi Ma
If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. — Lionel Jospin
The violent subjugation of the Palestinians, Iraqis, and Afghans will only ensure that those who oppose us will increasingly speak to us in the language… — Chris Hedges
If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got… — Lawrence Bossidy
European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance. — Cheikh Anta Diop
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. — Stephen Fry
Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else. — Eric Maisel
I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic. — Sebastiao Salgado
The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. — Stephen King
You have to be mad in the language you're mad in. — Chris Crutcher
On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in… — F. David Peat
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge — Jack Kerouac
Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ainâ€™t whatcha write, itâ€™s the way atcha write it. — Jack Kerouac
We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby… — Jan Tschichold

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