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While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.
Jose Rizal
People
Liberty
Language
Preserves
Marks
While
The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
Maxim Gorky
Beautiful
Words
Most Beautiful
Language
Guilty
Most
Beautiful Words
Not Guilty
English
English Language
I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.
Ntozake Shange
People
Language
Other
Our
Our Lives
Determines
Firm
Firm Believer
How
Then
Act
Use
Believer
Lives
The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
Octavio Paz
Cause
Ethics
Language
Relations
Our
Minds
Worrisome
Ease
Disturbing
Fact
Between
Concern
Accept
Rhetoric
Which
Perverse
Games
Less
Twisted
Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.
Peter Guber
You
Technology
Eyes
Language
Will
Before
Energy
More
Through
Come
Audience
Body
Body Language
Your
Your Body
Speaking
Even
Start
Recent
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
Richard Lederer
Good
History
Language
Way
Latin
Critical
Critical Mass
Vocabulary
More
Caesar
Mass
Most
Because
Makes
Julius
Julius Caesar
Than
Certain
English
English Language
Universal
Universal Language
I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just, and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need.
Robert Mugabe
Speak
World
Language
Conviction
United Nations
Only
Charter
Glad
Deliver
Share
Development
Fair
Principles
Am
Issues
Same
Just
Nations
Order
China
Many
United
Based
World Order
Zimbabwe
Need
All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
Rudolf Steiner
Nature
Soul
Language
Become
Our
Secrets
Through
Sounds
Were
Begins
Meaningful
Whisper
Us
Now
Incomprehensible
I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.
Terry Pratchett
Best
Fruit
Problem
Language
Important
Think
Universe
Telling
Perhaps
Most
Another
Understand
Trying
Via
The Most Important
Workings
Fundamental
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt Disney
Natural
Language
Job
Animals
Difficult
Other
Caricature
Our
Anatomy
Unnatural
Cartoon
Seemingly
Develop
Animation
Most
Parts
Different
Difficult Job
Humans
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
Communication
Speak
Language
Our
Inventions
Mass
Pictures
Most
Understood
Still
Universally
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
Walt Whitman
Time
Language
Free
Every
Range
Composition
Both
Freely
Dialect
Accretion
Race
Viewed
English
English Language
Growth
I believe in a visual language that should be as strong as the written word.
David LaChapelle
Strong
Word
Language
Believe
Visual
Written
Written Word
Should
Music is the language of the angels. You can hear just one or two chords, one or two notes of a song, and bam - you're right back there, you're right back in that moment, you're back in that day, you're back at that prom, you're back in the car.
Delilah
Music
Day
You
Song
Language
Car
Back
Prom
One Or Two
Angels
Hear
Just
Just One
Notes
Moment
Chords
Right
Right Back
Two
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates
Words
Language
Nothing
Virtue
Clearness
Chief
Unfamiliar
Much
Use
I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Language
Make
Became
Sounds
Meaningful
Aware
It's not a lighthearted decision to change your language, your country, your citizenship, and come to a world where you don't know anybody, to leave a place where you've had opportunities to build friendships from childhood. That's quite a big decision to make.
Milos Forman
You
Change
World
Opportunities
Decision
Language
Country
Big
Build
Citizenship
Had
Lighthearted
Come
Know
Make
Leave
Friendships
Quite
Childhood
Anybody
Where
Place
Your
The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.
Robert Kennedy
Life
Sports
Speak
World
Competition
Political
Language
Whatever
Differences
Religious
Athletes
Come
Knows
Same
Land
Racial
Lessons
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh
Nature
Reality
Language
Feeling
Important
More
Pictures
Than
Listen
Which
Themselves
Should
Painters
Things
Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.
Abbie Hoffman
You
People
Language
Wish
Never
Reach
Impose
Your
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
Art Linkletter
Best
Religion
You
Yourself
People
Treat
Better
Language
Somebody
Big
Every
Philosophy
Rule
Major
Another
How
Than
Just
The Golden Rule
Golden
Decently
Golden Rule
Anything
Help
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
Flora Lewis
Learning
Words
Language
Think
Way
About
Only
Another
Another Way
Same
Same Things
Different
Things
Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock
Music
Art
Language
Art Form
Form
Transcends
Happens
I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Me
Speak
Result
Mother
Language
Consider
Bengali
Paradoxically
Perceived
Write
Perfectly
Between
Know
Accent
Read
Without
Mother Tongue
Always
How
Foreign
Foreign Language
Authority
Even
Tongue
English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.
Ken Watanabe
Music
Language
Feelings
Singing
Sense
Like
Match
Makes
Fit
Notes
Really
English
English Language
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
Prayer
Man
Language
Translation
He
Mastered
Himself
Child
Asking
Barely
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