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#1

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: language

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“Nelson Mandela once said, 'If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.' He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else's language, even if it's just basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, 'I understand that you have a culture and identity that exists beyond me. I see you as a human being”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

tags: culture-identity, empathy, language

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#3

“Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.”
― Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog

tags: language, speech, writing

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#4

“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
― Gore Vidal

tags: euphemisms, language, political-correctness, politics, propoganda

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#5

“A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.”
― Henry Hazlitt, Thinking as a Science

tags: language, power-of-words, vocabulary, words

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#6

“Language is the source of misunderstandings.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

tags: french, language, writer

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#7

“She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.”
― Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

tags: fluency, foreign, language

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#8

“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”
― Jean Kerr

tags: clothes, conversation, gender, humor, language, men, socks, speaking, women

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#9

“We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: language

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#10

“Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

tags: flowers, language, love, thorns, truth

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#11

“And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. They see that joy and luck do not mean the same to their daughters, that to these closed American-born minds "joy luck" is not a word, it does not exist. They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

tags: china, concepts, daughters, family, fear, heritage, hope, ideas, immigration, joy, language, luck, mothers, perception, tradition, women

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#12

“Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

tags: beauty, language, understanding, wonder, world

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#13

“Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.”
― Alan Moore

tags: language

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#14

“All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something”
― G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen

tags: language, translations

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#15

“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.”
― Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods

tags: humility, language, tongue, words

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#16

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”
― Charlemagne

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#17

“Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.”
― Alexandre Dumas

tags: language

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#18

“Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.”
― Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

tags: design, language, typography

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#19

“The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.”
― Goethe

tags: english, goethe, language, language-understanding, vocabulary, words

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#20

“A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies
that have moulded them”
― Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India

tags: language

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#21

“You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.”
― Lily King, Euphoria

tags: communication, language, sense

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#22

“When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.”
― John O'Donohue

tags: ancestors, language, people

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#23

“Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true.”
― J. R. R. Tolkien

tags: language, lord-of-the-rings, worldbuilding

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#24

“Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives”
― Alfred De Musset

tags: language, romanticism, writing

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#25

“Translation is the art of failure.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: language, translation, words

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#26

“It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

tags: language, power-of-words, reality, translation

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