#language

The limits of my language means the limits of my world. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I must stick with Chinese language films. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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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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People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#also #crux #entire #itself #language

We inhabit a language rather than a country. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#inhabit #language #rather #than

Smiles are the language of love. ↗

— David Hare

#love #smiles

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity. ↗

— David Hare

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