#language

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#being #especially #incomprehensible #languages #method

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important. ↗

— Jon Secada

#grew #i #important #languages #me

We've driven teenagers crazy in every language. ↗

— Robert B. Sherman

#driven #every #language #teenagers

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language. ↗

— Hu Shih

#cornell #incidents #language #led #question

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. ↗

— Hu Shih

#announced #begin #classical #experiments #friends

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do. ↗

— Ron Silver

#awful #behavioral #body #body language #going

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. ↗

— Huston Smith

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You couldn't have human society without language. ↗

— John M. Smith

#human society #language #society #without #you

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#adapt #ask #capacity #child #come