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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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• Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Communication, Thinking, Shapes

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• Language is fossil Poetry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Poetry, Fossils

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'The Poet'

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• Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

  Angela Carter

  Culture, Language And Power, Instruments

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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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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• 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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  Coffee is a language in itself.

  Jackie Chan

  Coffee, Espresso, Martial Arts

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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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• 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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• It gives a message to people of love... it does not matter what's the colour of your skin, what language do you speak, what religion do you believe in. It is that we should all consider each other as human beings and we should respect each other.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Believe, Color, People

  "Malala Yousafzai 'honoured' by Nobel". www.radionz.co.nz. October 10, 2014.

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• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Perseverance, Giving Up

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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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• 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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• You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

  Plato

  Mistake, Men, Evil

  Plato, Richard Stanley Bluck (1955). “Phaedo: Translated, with Introd., Notes, and Appendices”

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• I think language is the most important thing that human beings have ever accomplished, and the only thing that's really going to get us all out of the troubles that we find ourselves in.

  Paul Bettany

  Thinking, Important, Trouble

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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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• 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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• 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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• Language is the principal tool with which we communicate; but when words are used carelessly or mistakenly, what was intended to advance mutual understanding may in fact hinder it; our instrument becomes our burden

  Irving Copi

  Communication, Science, Understanding

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• Questions that pertain to the foundations of mathematics, although treated by many in recent times, still lack a satisfactory solution. Ambiguity of language is philosophy's main source of problems. That is why it is of the utmost importance to examine attentively the very words we use.

  Giuseppe Peano

  Philosophy, Science, Foundation

  "The Principles of Arithmetic, presented by a new method". Book by Giuseppe Peano, 1889.

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• [In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars.

  Thomas Sprat

  Men, Numbers, Expression

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• The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.

  A.J. Ayer

  Self, Principles, Use

  "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (p. 77), 1936.

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• Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.

  Alexander Crum Brown

  Hands, Skills, Branches

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• If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Art, Apples, Core

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