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I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.
Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.
Bob Dylan enabled rock & roll to grow up and survive. He injected the power of language and ideas into the music.
This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.
Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.
Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do.
Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic.
A sentence is made up of words, a statement is made in words.... Statements are made, words or sentences are used.
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.
Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.
The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.
I'm really into production and I'm also into producing my own sound because the sonics, in a way, is the language.
I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.
Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.
There has never been a time when there has been no person in Cornwall without a knowledge of the Cornish language.
The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.
Numbers are really fascinating things, and they do play a big part in our lives. They are a language of their own.
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
It's so rich as a trope - the whole idea of the road and it being in terms of language, being an active experience.
There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.
My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.
Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
People have to have a language to speak about where they are and what other possible futures are available to them.
Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?
European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.
Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.
If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.
A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.
Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.
There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.
Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.
Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.
People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action.
A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else.
paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.
We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.
Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify.