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TPP replicates similar language from past trade agreements that has allowed foreign corporations the right to challenge U.S. federal, state, and local laws outside of American courts. These tribunals will not meet our high standard of transparency and due process, and they will rely on weak impartiality rules for selecting judges. Dan Lipinski

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Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language. Daniel Alarcon

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When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting. Daniel Alarcon

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated. Daniel Alarcon

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Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language. Daniel Dennett

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A playlist can be very versatile, almost like a programming language. Daniel Ek

Language Programming Programming Language Almost Like Versatile Very

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community. Daniel Everett

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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem. Daniel Everett

New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. Daniel Hannan

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What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states. Daniel Levitin

Music Better Language States Complexity Able Emotional Than Represent Human

Across a range of inferences involving not just language but mathematics, logic problems, and spatial reasoning, sleep has been shown to enhance the formation and understanding of abstract relations, so much so that people often wake having solved a problem that was unsolvable the night before. Daniel Levitin

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I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent. Daniel Tammet

Learning Language Long Lost Consider Bit Almost Over Like Accent Practising Been Years So Many Years Social Skills Many Social Skills

If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive. Daniel Tammet

I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that as well - the language of martial arts movie fighting. It's a different thing; it's a different kind of logic. Daniel Wu

I think music is another language. Dar Williams

Music Language Think Another

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life. David Amram

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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. David Antin

Entertainment Language Entertainment Industry Protect Industry Gods May Us

My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc. David Bohm

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Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock. David Bowie

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language. David Chalmers

Speak Language Background Sciences Scientists Helps

It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam. David Chipperfield

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Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster. David Crystal

Language Added Negligible Dimension Impact Long-Term New Disaster Texting Use

A community, once it realises that its language is in danger, can get its act together and introduce measures which can genuinely revitalise. You've seen it happen in Australia with several Aboriginal languages. And it's happening in other countries, too. David Crystal

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