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«The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.»
«We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.»
Author: Kofi Annan
| About:
Humanity,
Tolerance
| Keywords:
belong to, colored, human race, languages, religions, skin, skin color
«We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.»
Author: Booker T. Washington
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alleyway, alleyways, beat down, borrow, languages, occasion, on occasion, Other languages, pockets, pursued, rifle, rifled, rifles, unconscious
«The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.»
«The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
contrary, dialect, dialects, images, languages, languages of, other than, sensations, The Dream, to that, various, waking
«The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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all ages, British, buckets, classic, collection, immense, languages, Modern Age, Modern English, obsolete, pools, repair, rill, scantiest, scanty, sequester, sequestered, swell, their own language, The Modern Age, undefiled, volumes, wherewith
«Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Culture,
Knowledge,
Language,
Travel
| Keywords:
foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, knows, know nothing, languages, languages of, of their own, Other languages, Their language, their own language
«To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
| Keywords:
languages
«Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Communication,
Language,
Media
| Keywords:
creating, gimmick, gimmicks, languages, media, New Beginnings, new media, worlds
«They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
feast, languages, scraps, stolen
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