#language

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political. ↗

— Gilles Deleuze

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Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#teaching #freedom

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket. ↗

— William Golding

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I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Annaud

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The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. ↗

— Roger Babson

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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really. ↗

— Balthus

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I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn. ↗

— Stephanie Beacham

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Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language. ↗

— Albert Brooks

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When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#among #analysis #assumed #basically #college

I think one of the best words in the English language is compassion. I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference. ↗

— Michael Crawford

#care #compassion #did #difference #english