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Letter "L" » Language
«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»
«Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.»
«Not only does the English Language borrow words from other languages, it sometimes chases them down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and goes through their pockets»
Author: Eddy Peters
| About:
Language,
Words
| Keywords:
alleys, borrow, chases, English, English language, Head down, hits, languages, Other languages, pockets, the English
«Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets»
Author: Emmauel Mounier
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
regenerate, regenerated, regenerates, regenerating, schoolman, the Poets
«Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.»
«No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.»
Author: Rupert Murdoch
| About:
Language,
Travel
| Keywords:
global, grounding, helpful, increasingly, International, operate, sciences
«Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.»
Author: William Bennett
(Author, Politician)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
common language, English-speaking, ensure
«Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.»
«Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
| About:
Desire,
Language,
Mankind,
Words
| Keywords:
govern, moderate, moderated, moderating, tongues
«Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
affirmation, merest, precarious, separates
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