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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.


Hippocrates


#clearness #detracts #language #much #nothing

Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.


Abbie Hoffman


#language #never #people #reach #wish

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.


Oliver Wendell Holmes


#grow #into #language #out #run

Will you, my countrymen, the descendants of these men, warmed by their blood, inheriting their language, and having the principles for which they struggled confided to your care, allow them to be violated in your hands?


Joseph Howe


#blood #care #confided #countrymen #descendants

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.


Kim Hunter


#communicate #could #delightful #felt #go

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.


Douglas Hyde


#centuries #culture #dies #educational #fade

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.


Douglas Hyde


#dead #decently #i #i do #language

'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.


Michael Imperioli


#been #blue-collar #city #detroit #filmed

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.


Guillermo Cabrera Infante


#because #country #england #forced #going

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.


Ernest Istook


#american #american society #ballots #benefits #come






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