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Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.
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Language. I loved it. And for a long time I would think of myself, of my whole body, as an ear.
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Languages are the barometers of national thought and character.
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Languages are the keys of science.
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Languages are the pedigree of nations.
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Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through disuse.
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Learn a new language and get a new soul.
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Let”s not become so worried about not offending anybody that we lose the ability to distinguish between respect and paranoia.
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Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide –that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life –are alike forbidden.
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Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals
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Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
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Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.
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Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
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Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
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Might, could, would — they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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Might, could, would –they are contemptible auxiliaries.
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Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.- Jason Chamberlain
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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My general theory since has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.
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