"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."- Mark Twain
"Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language."-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."- Nelson Mandela
"Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true."- Salman Rushdie
"Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent."- Ferdinand de Saussure
"There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind."- Noam Chomsky
"Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed."- Casey Miller
"Language helps form the limits of our reality."- Dale Spender
"We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character."- Henry David Thoreau
"You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else."- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking."- Humphry Davy
"It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."- Jane Wagner
"We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has."- Deborah Tannen
"Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is."- George Steiner
"It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence."- Robert A. Heinlein
"The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design."- Robert Louis Stevenson
"When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual."- Ellen Goodman
"Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by."- Chogyam Trungpa
"To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness."- Alice Sebold
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