#language

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

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I speak two languages, Body and English. ↗

— Mae West

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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. ↗

— John Donne

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I just don't like big guys who speak cryptically and act like they understand the language better than me. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

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