#lang

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate. ↗

— Jane Goodall

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The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#beautiful words #english #english language #guilty #language

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

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I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe. ↗

— Lucas Grabeel

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A programming language is for thinking about programs, not for expressing programs you've already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. ↗

— Paul Graham

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In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself. ↗

— Gunter Grass

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