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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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  Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Fun, Mean, Broken

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• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspiration, Learning, People

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.47, Bantam

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• Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Song, Travel

  Nelson Mandela (1998). “In the Words of Nelson Mandela”, Birch Lane Press

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• If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Communication, Different, World

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• Language is the source of misunderstandings.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, Belief, Source

  "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. XXI), 1943.

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• Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

  Flora Lewis

  Learning, Thinking, German Language

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• Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Important, Culture, Absolutely Nothing

  "Language and Identity: An introduction". Book by John Edwards, 2009.

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• Language is the dress of thought.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Learning, Thinking

  Lives of the English Poets "Cowley" (1779 - 1781)

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• The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

  Ezra Pound

  Language Learning, Humans, Human Wisdom

  Sophocles, Ezra Pound, Rudd Fleming, Carey Perloff (1990). “Elektra”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

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• A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.

  Marcel Proust

  Fortresses, Knows

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.909, Delphi Classics

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• Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

  Aldous Huxley

  Tradition, Individual, Victim

  Aldous Huxley (2009). “The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.128, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Wisdom, Communication, Philosophical

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposition 5.6 (1922)

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• Our language is the reflection of ourselves.

  Cesar Chavez

  Reflection

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• The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Ideas, Doe

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• Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

  C. S. Lewis

  Communicate, Mediums, Ifs

  C. S. Lewis (1990). “Studies in Words”, p.313, Cambridge University Press

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• Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Communication, Plain Language, Imagination

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “On the Constitution of the Church and State”, p.326, Classic Books Company

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  Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

  Salman Rushdie

  Courage, Communication, Novelists

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

  Russell Hoban

  Inspirational, Communication, People

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz”, p.146, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.

  Casey Miller

  Native Language, Ideas, Skins

  Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.4, iUniverse

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• And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?

  Samuel Daniel

  Communication, May, Tongue

  Samuel Daniel, “Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning (Ex”

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• Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

  George Steiner

  Men, World, Accepting

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.398, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Verbing weirds language.

  Bill Watterson

  Comic, English Language

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

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