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Language Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of…
- Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other…
- His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to…
- English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English…
- The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn.…
- It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even…
- It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial…
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