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- I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it. — Bayard Taylor
- Language development, for instance, has a critical period that begins in infancy and ends between eight years and puberty. After this critical… — Norman Doidge
- The fact that man produces a concept "I" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove… — Albert Einstein
- There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able… — Paulo Coelho
- Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking… — Steven Johnson
- Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as… — Helen Keller
- Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson
- Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a… — Cynthia Ozick