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So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

So learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.

Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

Some changes of language are to be regretted, as they lead to false inferences, and society is always a loser by mistaking names for things.

Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped me the most.

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language original but inarticulate, heard only with the soul, and I realize I brought it with me, was never taught it nor can I efficiently teach it to another.

Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious.

Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.

Sometimes, you just have to reassure the ones you love in precise language that you'll always be there. Sometimes words are enough.

Sometimes you're not in the best environment. Sometimes you're not speaking the same language and it's not a good place to work. It's a lot to give, actually. And for not a lot of money.

Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.

Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium for introspective reflection.

Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English.

Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.

Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts.

Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

Tangible language, which often tells more falsehoods than truths.

Talk about painting: there's no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be said, and you leave out the ones that can't be said but are always the most important.

Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking." And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.