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Language Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.
- God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our…
- When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness;…
- Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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