#lang

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Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.


Jane Rule


#conserving #invented #language #learned #like

I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.


Paul Ryan


#answer #ask #did #documents #founding

Stop worrying about the 'dumbing down' of our language by bloggers, tweeters, cableheads and MSM thumbsuckers engaged in a 'race to the bottom' of the page by little minds confined to little words.


William Safire


#bloggers #bottom #confined #down #engaged

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.


George Saintsbury


#any #best #call #classical #comparative

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.


Carl Sandburg


#language #never #no respect #people #polite

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.


Carl Sandburg


#hands #language #rolls #slang #sleeves

The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.


Jil Sander


#language #like #market #saying #understand

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.


Deion Sanders


#back #dog #fire #got #i

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.


Carlos Santana


#any #clearly #english #goes #i

There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.


Carlos Santana


#because #connect #english #everything #faster