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Although I could lament in the language and feelings of David for Absalom, I am constrained to say, peace to his manes. Let us weep for the living, and not for the dead.

Although mathematical notation undoubtedly possesses parsing rules, they are rather loose, sometimes contradictory, and seldom clearly stated. [...] The proliferation of programming languages shows no more uniformity than mathematics. Nevertheless, programming languages do bring a different perspective. [...] Because of their application to a broad range of topics, their strict grammar, and their strict interpretation, programming languages can provide new insights into mathematical notation.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

A man is known by the books he reads.

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

America is our continent. You feel in the daily language that Americans use the word "America" to erase the rest of the continent from the map. And, of course, the language is clearly a reflection of the geopolitical reality: the domination of the United States over the rest of the continent.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

A national language is a band of national union.

An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available in whatever it is, close to 50 languages. There was an attempt to suppress the writer. And I'm happy to say the writer wasn't suppressed.

And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++.

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.

And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

And it's significant that he has been using the, you know, language of betrayal in his rhetoric about Turkey. He called the shoot down a treacherous stab in the back by an accomplice of the terrorists. And that suggests that there could still be some harsh revenge in store for Turkey.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.

And the Clave wants to meet Clarissa. You know that, Jace." "The Clave can screw itself." "Jace," Maryse said, sounding genuinely parental for a change. "Language." "The Clave wants a lot of things," Jace amended. "It shouldn't necessarily get them all.

And this I have learned grown-ups do not know the language of shadows.

And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

An Englishman is content to say nothing when he has nothing to say.

An ear will never do you wrong, but I know writers who... most of the language they use is just extracted language from other languages they've read. I am a big-time reader, but I mix and match.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.

A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Any Name of God in any language is worthy of respect but the original Name of God in the Semitic language is Allah. This (Semitic) is the language of the celestial entities. It is by this Name that the angels call upon God and it is attached to the Title of every Prophet.

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus.

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of artistic expression.