"A man who can speak two languages is…" — Napoleon Hill

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• Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be… — Hannah Arendt
• High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
• In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the… — Aristotle
• But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed… — Chinua Achebe
• War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
• As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,… — Margaret Atwood
• A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at… — Diane Ackerman
• The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
• A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
• In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but… — Michelle Bachelet
• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot

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