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What I love about Sonny's playing is that he is so inventive within the mainstream Jazz vernacular. Because he knows so many ways to deal… — Pete La Roca
I tell my students, 'It's an important tradition and you have to go back and hear this music and learn its language all the way… — Jackie McLean
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a… — Matthew Shipp
The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills… — Unknown Author
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade,… — Antonio Damasio
[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you,… — Mark Pagel
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for… — Mark Pagel
What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness. — Louise Leakey
Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form.… — Henry Ward Beecher
The day is past when schools could afford to give sufficient time and attention to the teaching of the ancient languages to enable the student… — James Loeb
Coming to appreciate your worth can, in some cases, dramatically improve your circumstances by changing the choices you make and the actions you take. And… — Dan Millman
Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language. — Terence McKenna
Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton. — Terence McKenna
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other,… — Kenneth Lee Pike
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt. — Emma Lazarus
Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure — Paul Lockhart
It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith… — Giles Fraser
The English language lacks the words 'to mourn an absence.' For the loss of a parent, grandparent, spouse, child or friend we have all manner… — Laura Bush
Movement is the universal language of personal freedom. — Unknown Author
In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all… — Robert Pinsky

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