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He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.
Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.
Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators "the haute couture of language."
The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.
The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder.
Clear language engenders clear thought, and clear thought is the most important benefit of education.
A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.
I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.
I speak to you in one tongue/ but every moment that ever mattered to me/ occurred in another language.
We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.
Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner.
Remember that one who forgets the language of gratitude can never be on speaking terms with happiness.
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand
I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.
Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
Geek it's really more a characteristic where you don't socialize. You don't talk the normal languages.
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.
Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.
Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.
To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.
Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.
If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem.
No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand images.
[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.
Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.
I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.
The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.
There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself.
Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.
Better than chanting a thousand words in a dead language is one soothing word spoken in the vernacular.
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language.
Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.