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The word of man is the most durable of all material. (Alesi Jean)
It was Greek to me. (Alesi Jean)
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. (Alesi Jean)
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases. (Alesi Jean)
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. (Alesi Jean)
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. (Alesi Jean)
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. (Alesi Jean)
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express. (Alesi Jean)
I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. (Alesi Jean)
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. (Alesi Jean)
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning. (Alesi Jean)
How many languages are there in the world? How about 5 billion! Each of us talks, listens, and thinks in his/her own special language that has been shaped by our culture, experiences, profession, personality, mores and attitudes. The chances of us meeting someone else who talks the exact same language is pretty remote. (Alesi Jean)
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 (Alesi Jean)
A mind enclosed in language is in prison. (Alesi Jean)
Numbers constitute the only universal language. (Alesi Jean)
The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay (Alesi Jean)
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. (Alesi Jean)
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it. (Alesi Jean)
Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. (Alesi Jean)
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. (Alesi Jean)
Poetry is the language of feeling. (Alesi Jean)
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