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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans. Mangosuthu Buthelezi
History Culture People Language Made Own Other Our Destinies Destiny Also Tied South Up African Us
It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful. Michael Franti
Gay You Matter Language Black Single White Every Significant Countries Come Single Person Person Different Different Countries Straight Different Language Meaningful
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. Niels Bohr
Language Atoms Poet Too Only Poetry Facts Concerned Creating Used Describing Nearly Images
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. Octavio Paz
Nature Silence History Noise Language Feeling Sense Something Recourse True Missing Also Makes Contrary Human Literature Against Deprivation Us Meaningless Expression
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. Sam Rayburn
Language Mouth Finer No-One Command His Than Person Who Keeps Shut
I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother - what is he? The man who keeps back the hire of his laborers by fraud - what is he? William Lloyd Garrison
Man Word Language Back Charge Fraud Find Brother Able Admit He Identify Makes Am Hire Perpetrator Been His Laborers Accused Hard Who Using Describe Villainy Keeps Soft
It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity. Yehuda Berg
Religion Words Speak Language Hatred Practice Skin Society Our Sexual Color Leaders Nor Friction Preferences Create Creates Disparity Wars Amongst
Hate begets hate and if karma and punishment is the only language you understand then the road ahead will be rocky. Tanushree Dutta
You Hate Karma Ahead Language Will Punishment Only Road Understand Rocky Begets Then
True creativity often starts where language ends. Arthur Koestler
Creativity Language Starts True Often Ends Where
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs. A. E. Waite
Language Signs Other True Tarot Offers Speaks Symbolism
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant. Alan Perlis
Language Programming Programming Language Programs Attention Irrelevant Low Require Level
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence. Alan Rickman
Me You Change Words Language Drive Different Energies Anyway Mean Sentence Fascinates Whole
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. Albert Einstein
Science Simple Language Everyone Rule Comprehensible Ideas Most May Essentially Expressed Fundamental
Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema. Andrzej Wajda
Entertainment World Cinema Language France Entertainment Industry Case Simply Global Opens Industry Because Does Equivalent Coming Exist Italy American English English Language Whole Why
People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language. Anthony Geary
Me You People Speak Language Live Think Say Would People Say Only Nobody French Learn Because Courtesy Dutch Common Want Speaks Even Why Why Not Here
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. Antonin Artaud
Language Teeth Chatter True Like Beggar Incomprehensible
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates. Ariel Dorfman
You Humanity Oppression World Language Free Cruelty Other Sideways Hidden Parallel Inside Never Never Forget Look Forget Where Want Body Violence
For me, cooking is the only way I know how to show my love. That's why I am so passionate about food. It's such a love language. Ayesha Curry
Love Food Me Cooking Language Way About Only Know How Am Passionate Show Why
Finality is not the language of politics. Benjamin Disraeli
Politics Language Finality
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas. Bodhidharma
Language Located Buddhas Understands Real Five Six Senses Fictions Anywhere Body Such Things Whoever Things
All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression. Brian Greene
Mathematics Language Progression Follow Finely Points Like Well Arranged Very Five Tuned Which Patterns Regular Regularly Describe Star Numbers
I feel it is unnatural and immoral to try to teach science to children in a foreign language They will know facts, but they will miss the spirit. C. V. Raman
Science Try Language Will Unnatural Immoral Spirit Facts Feel Miss Know Foreign Foreign Language Children Teach
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. Christopher Morley
Life Language Men Life Is A Foreign Foreign Language
There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play. Connie Sellecca
Language Kids Came Barrier Play
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language. David Crystal
Best You People Language Research Spell Evidence Those Kids Rather More Badly Know Most Likely Likewise Because Frequently How Text Texting Literate Manipulate Teaches Who Shows
English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global reach. David Crystal
History Science Language Other Vocabulary Primary Global Reach Because Does Than Languages English Larger
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