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The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
Charles Stanley

Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Martin Heidegger

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.
Bill Hicks

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
Martin Heidegger

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin Heidegger

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison

High thoughts must have high language.
Aristophanes

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
George Will

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Henri Matisse

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Ezra Pound

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James

What I was proud of was that I used very few parts to build a computer that could actually speak words on a screen and type words on a keyboard and run a programming language that could play games. And I did all this myself.
Steve Wozniak

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Gaston Bachelard

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
Francis Schaeffer

A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
Simone Weil

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
George Herbert

The eyes have one language everywhere.
George Herbert

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