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The development of language is part of the development of the personality, for words are the natural means of expressing thoughts and establishing understanding between people.

Maria Montessori

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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

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Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece — just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.

Anders Hejlsberg

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Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

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Tears are the silent language of grief.

Voltaire

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Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.

Gilbert Highet

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Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

Shakuntala Devi

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Music is the universal language of mankind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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There are many deaf people who couldn't imagine living in a marriage without someone who doesn't speak their language. For me, I believe that hearing or deaf is fine as long as both parties are willing to communicate in each other's language. But if there's no communication, then the marriage, I believe, will be difficult if not doomed.

Marlee Matlin

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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Galileo Galilei

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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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My work is better, maybe all filmmakers are better, for Polanski's imprint on cinema. He created language for all of us to use, there is no question about that.

Allison Anders

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Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.

Conan O'Brien

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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story', words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

Pat Conroy

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A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

William Arthur Ward

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The art of communication is the language of leadership.

James Humes

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Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

Lou Rawls

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