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Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.


Frank Luntz


#burn #confuse #down #evil #fire

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.


Loretta Lynn


#dolly #dolly parton #especially #get #hillbilly

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.


Jean-Francois Lyotard


#becoming #both #clear #communication #component

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.


Yo-Yo Ma


#around #begin #changes #different #every

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.


Thomas B. Macaulay


#beauty #bible #book #else #english

I had said no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him and no to him about his saucy language. It had never gotten to this level until I came back.


Andrea Mackris


#back #came #gotten #had #him

Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.


Margaret Mahy


#anyone #bands #being #books #community

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.


Ella Maillart


#few #foreign #foreign languages #go #had

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.


David Mamet


#away #based #days #evenings #family

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.


Paul de Man


#agent #both #degree #his #historian






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