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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain
Kindness Language See Blind Deaf Hear Which
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. Henry David Thoreau
Friendship Words Language Meanings
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help. Ronald Reagan
Government Words Language Most Terrifying Help English English Language Here
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell
Political Language Pure Wind Respectable Solidity Lies Give Make Sound Truthful Appearance Designed
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think. Maya Angelou
God Me You Blessing Yourself Speak Language Dance Somebody Cloud Think Else Dances Seems Name Like Look Call Same May Your Who Prepare Thing Rainbow
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. William Arthur Ward
Smile Kindness Language Warm Universal Universal Language
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
Wisdom You Man Heart Language He Head Talk Him Understands His Goes
Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it. Lou Rawls
Music Good You Communication People World Language Singing Good Music Know Understand Greatest Still Hear Even
On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! Alexander Henry
Hope Language Country One Country Memorial Day Rests Flag Republic
By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth. George Carlin
Truth Communication Language Tool Concealing Large
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. Noam Chomsky
Generation Words Language Free Creation Interpretation Laws Varied Involves Principles Fixed Infinitely Process Which Manner Use Used Even
I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you. Kobe Bryant
You People Speak Language Relate Lazy Lazy People Understand Same Want
Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich
Alone Loneliness Solitude Word Language Pain Glory Being Being Alone Created Express
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. Gore Vidal
Time You Vote People Words Disguise Election Language Liberate Will Own Confuse Action Too Destroying City Time People Decadent Against Interests Used Grow Illuminate Grows Societies
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Reality Language Thought Harmony Everything Between Like Metaphysical Grammar Found
Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do. Frances Hesselbein
Leadership Matter Behavior Language Values Practice Manners Our Philosophy Easily Embody Able More Self-Awareness Principles Self-Improvement How Against Measured Actions Aware
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. George Orwell
Language Thought Corrupts Corrupt Also
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin
Language Think Complain Our Developed Because Personally Deep Need
'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence? George Carlin
Language Could Longest Am Sentence Shortest English English Language
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. George Orwell
Great Enemy Words Language Long Exhausted Aims Great Enemy Out Insincerity Clear Long Words Between Instinctively Like Idioms Real Were Turns Gap Ink
The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people. Maria Montessori
Thoughts Natural People Words Personality Language Understanding Part Development Between Establishing Means Expressing
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object. Patrick Henry
Patriotism Youth Liberty Language Object Spirit Primary Sir America American Different American Spirit
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech. Aristotle
Language Three First Must Proper Various Various Parts Points Study Parts Arrangement Making Means Producing Persuasion Second Third Speech
Even in the deepest love relationship - when lovers say 'I love you' to each other - we don't really know what we're saying, because language isn't equal to the complexity of human emotions. Duane Michals
Love Saying Relationship You Emotions Language Other Say Complexity Know Equal Because Human Love You Lovers Human Emotions Really Even Each Deepest
People need realness, reality. People can sense when someone is being pretentious or fake. It's because you feel it; you see it in someone's body language. Afrojack
You Reality People Language Pretentious Sense See Someone Feel Because Fake Being Body Realness Body Language Need
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else. C. S. Lewis
You Try Language Else Clear Make Sure Always Quite Anything Anything Else Mean Sentence Use Your
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