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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.
Writ in the climate of heaven, in the language spoken by angels.
The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has read more
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them
Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being
brought a stone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
He has strangled
His language in his tears.
He has strangled
His language in his tears.
