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Our Language Quotes by Bernard Pivot
- They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
- People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.
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- Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers. — Cesar Chavez
- Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will… — Benjamin Franklin
- Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer… — Dwight L. Moody
- Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single… — Charles Babbage
- It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment… — Henri Poincare
- If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will… — Jacques Chirac
- To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer
- For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the… — Janine Benyus
- When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of… — Michael Faraday
- We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement… — Benjamin Lee Whorf
- If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent… — Frederick Douglass
- The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. — George Orwell