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“Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.”

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Isaiah Berlin was a British philosopher renowned for his contributions to political philosophy, aesthetics, and intellectual history. He was a prominent figure in 20th-century philosophical discourse and held a professorship at the University of Oxford. Berlin's philosophy focused on the significance of individual freedom and the variety of human values. more

“It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language which is being molded by writers to do delicate things and yet be within the grasp of superficially educated people. It is not a natural growth, much as its proletarian writers would like to think so. But compared with it at its best, English has reached the Alexandrian stage of formalism and decay.”

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Book:Later Novels & Other Writings

Source: Later Novels & Other Writings

“The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.”

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Book:After Einstein: Proceedings of the Einstein Centennial Celebration, Memphis State University, March 14-16, 1979

Source: After Einstein: Proceedings of the Einstein Centennial Celebration, Memphis State University, March 14-16, 1979

“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.”

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Book:Letters and Social Aims

Source: Letters and Social Aims

“Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.”

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Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“The language of truth is simple.”

Language Simple Communication Truth Is

Author:Euripides

“Deeds, not words shall speak me.”

Inspirational Speak Language Communication Deeds English Language Deeds Not Words

Book:The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory

Source: The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: In Ten Volumes. Collated with All the Former Editions, and Corrected. With Notes Critical and Explanatory

“Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men's language. Of course women learn it. We're not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man's world, so it talks a man's language.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.”

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Author:Douglas Hofstadter

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