#language

Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used. ↗

— Alonzo Church

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All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature. ↗

— Rudolf Steiner

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English is a beautiful language, a remarkably precise language with a million words to choose from to deliver your exact shade of meaning. ↗

— Laura Fraser

#beauty

Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man. ↗

— Eliza Cook

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Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#chinese #experiences #had #i #interesting

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

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I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out. ↗

— Terry Brooks

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I had a quick ear and could pick up languages. ↗

— Diane Cilento

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Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right. ↗

— Toni Collette

#also #different #different things #getting #having

Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape. ↗