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C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli.

Crusaders have just f-ked me over what a bas-rd joke, excuse my language I'm absolutely furious.

Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

Dance is the pure language of the soul - it's been with us from the very beginning.

Dangling punch lines to forgotten stories remain in the language like the smile of the Cheshire cat.

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.

Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

Doing TV is a different kind of language.

Donald Trump came along and spoke in a language that speaks directly to a portion of the Republican base with what they want to hear. I don`t think that he actually has a very significant ideology.

Donald Trump's language has been atrocious, his behavior toward women.

[Donald Trump] said that he has intelligence briefings. He's heard stuff that body language. It's very wild to me.

Do Not Disturb signs should be written in the language of the hotel maids.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.

Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?” “I’ve lived a long time, kid, and I’ve never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you.

Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

Each actor requires a different language.

Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

Each language gives you something different so that's a good enough reason for you to learn it.

Each religion necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself. Religions, like languages, are necessary rivals. What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.

Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.

Eighty percent of language lies to us.

Elementary propositions consist of names.

[Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

English, no longer an English language, now grows from many roots.

English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

english doesn't borrow from other languages. english follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.

English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.

English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.