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The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition.

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one’s own.

The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain.

The word love carries the same vibration in any language.

The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.

The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

The world was a cruder, more vulgar place than the one I had known. This was the language required to live in it, I supposed.

The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.

They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and manipulated.

This organization of functional discourse is of vital importance; it serves as a vehicle of coordination and subordination. The unified, functional language is an irreconcilably anti-critical and anti-dialectical language. In it, operational and behavioral rationality absorbs the transcendent, negative, oppositional elements of Reason.

This is the power of images, the ambiguity. You are never completely sure of anything. With written language, it's more concrete. You have to establish some facts, but in movies, you see things happening, and the exact meaning behind the images is more ambiguous.

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

Those who become hyperpolyglots are those who meet two criteria. One, they are exposed to language material. Two, they undertake learning languages as a mission as well as acquiring the personal identity as a language learner.I describe the "neural tribe theory" of hyperpolyglots, arguing that they possess an atypical neurology that is selected by some environments and not others; presumably, there have always been humans walking around with that set of neurological traits or factors, only some of whom actually use those things for languages.

Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.

This word "LOVE" - discredited, "clicheed" - can be restored and love, the instinct, the impulse to care for somebody in the hope that somebody will care for you - plus our language, the language, a language - is about all we have. With everything else going on, this is what makes us, what keeps us human.

Those who don't understand any language other than the language of force and violence don't respect human dignity. They seek violence because they will be irrelevant without it. We should not go their way.

those who use the word 'lifestyle' are rarely in possession of either.

Those who read in a second language write and spell better in that language.

Those who violate the rules of a language do not enter new territory; they leave the domain of meaningful discourse. Even facts in these circumstances dissolve, because they are shaped by the language and subjected to its limitations.

Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.

Thought is metaphoric, and proceeds by comparison, and the metaphors of language derive therefrom.

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together.

Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

To change your language you must change your life.

To be honest, I couldn't hold a conversation with anybody in any language other than English - and that's a struggle sometimes!

To create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language - That's who I am. That's what I am doing. That's my life goal.

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj.

To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.

To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.