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The greatest single programming language ever designed

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language

The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms.

The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional.

The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.

The highest thoughts are those which are least dependent on language, and the dignity of any composition and praise to which it is entitled are in exact proportion to its dependency of language or expression.

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. How does German turn to Dutch, and how does Dutch turn to Anglo-Saxon and eventually English? Morphology is actually taking place through things like Twitter or GChat today, where we're changing how things are spelled, and those spellings are accepted as standard now. Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

The important thing is to be able to understand anyone who has something useful to say. - There is a general moral here. Be very careful and very clear about what you say. But do not be dogmatic about your own language. Be prepared to express any careful thought in the language your audience will understand. And be prepared to learn from someone who talks a language with which you are not familiar.

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

the intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form .

The internet is an amazing medium for languages.

The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.

The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the epoch, the language, the cultural tapestry from which it's echoing, if you will. I often say it's the eyes of the poet's and the ears of the composer's. This narration is what fascinates me endlessly.

The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same.

The Kurds know that they won't achieve their own state by force of arms but through international recognition. And they have certainly heard what the German foreign minister said in connection with the arms deliveries: There is no Kurdish state. But that shouldn't prevent the Kurds from continuing to develop their own institutions. Still, the best thing for them would be to remain a part of Iraq, but in return we must treat them with respect - their nationality, their language and their culture.

The Language Laboratory at Cambridge is a very good way of finding out about grammar and the vocabulary and that's why I learned to read German and later on I added Spanish, the standard European languages.

The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time.

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything feels less rehearsed. It’s more experimental than classical.

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.

The language of religion can alone suit every situation and every mode of feeling.

The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.

The language of the internet is English, and an overwhelming proportion of the global computer chatter also originates from America, influencing the content of global conversation.

The language of the novel differs from the just-the-facts language of the old tales. It's robust and earthy, sometimes even baroque.

The language of the street is always strong.

The language of translation ought never to attract attention to itself.

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

The language of religion holds the most currency for the masses.

The language of silence is the language of God, the language of silence is the language of the heart.

The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction.

The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are compressed into brief, highly reductive, definitive-sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed. These become the start and finish of any ideological analysis.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

The language Mr. Obama uses is refreshingly different from that of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.