"The tongue is the only instrument that gets……" — Washington Irving

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• High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
• We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are… — M H Abrams
• Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
• Journalism is literature in a hurry. — Matthew Arnold
• Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
• That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world,… — Timothy Garton Ash
• I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
• Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you… — Margaret Atwood
• A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
• Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than… — Francis Bacon
• What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through… — Erykah Badu
• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. — Walter Bagehot

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