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“There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color or religion.”

People Should Speak Language Color Skins Discrimination Skin Color

Author:Malala Yousafzai

“I believe that should is one of the most damaging words in our language. Every time we use it, we are, in effect, saying that we are wrong, or we were wrong, or we're going to be wrong. I would like to take the word should out of our vocabulary forever and replace it with the word could. This word gives us a choice, and we're never wrong.”

Giving Should Believe Use Choices Language I Believe Forever Effects Vocabulary

Book:Modern-Day Miracles

Source: Modern-Day Miracles

“The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.”

People Should Ends Language Ought Holy Should Have Tongue Believer Scripture Ghost Doctrine Familiar Holy Ghost

Author:John Wycliffe

“We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.”

People Should Mean Doe Helping Culture Language Loses Dominant Other Cultures Dominant Culture

Author:Edward T. Hall

“To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.”

Should Humans Reality Language Force Human Beings Pay Benefits Screens Categories Shortcomings

Author:Abraham Maslow

“The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use to me. Schools should teach the basics of cookery, first aid, how to look after your money and how to speak foreign languages. Useful things.”

Should Firsts Looks Long Has Beens Use School Speak Language Teach Knowing Aids Division Basics Foreign Language Cookery Useful Things

Author:Jane Asher

“The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world conventions, making information appear in a natural and logical order.”

World Should Real Order Speak Language Term Natural Information Concepts Familiar Phrases Logical Real World Conventions Users

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?”

Should Home Language Please Travel Female Tables Males Gender Confusing

Book:Marlene Dietrich's ABC.

Source: Marlene Dietrich's ABC.

“Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.”

“Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.”

Should War Able Language Force Slavery Arrogance Genocide Pins Felicity Ineffable

Author:Toni Morrison

“Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.”

Ifs Giving Should Mean Persons Matter Able Language Easy Natural Written Trouble Letters Regard Grammar

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“This is practically the language used to fallen women, and chiefly by their own sex: "God may forgive you, but we never can!" - a declaration which, however common, in spirit if not in substance, is, when one comes to analyse it, unparalleled in its arrogance of blasphemy. That for a single offence, however grave, a whole life should be blasted, is a doctrine repugnant even to Nature's own dealings in the visible world.”

Ifs World Should May Whole Used Spirit Language Sex Common Forgiving Whole Life Graves Doctrine Substance Fallen Arrogance Visible Declaration Blasphemy Offence Dealings

Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true pictures of man and woman nature, for its early historical record.”

“Learning to say prayers in a foreign language...is not in itself the way to fulfill our highest human potential; there is nothing of transcending value to be gained from substituting one set of cultural conventions for another. People whose practice remains on this superficial level end up with nothing but confusion, not knowing who they are or what they should do.”

“Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.”

Should Language Aliens Acquire Customs Colony Pennsylvania Complexion

Book:The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

“Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.”

People Should Language Civilization Disease Forgotten English Language Englishmen Incurable Disease

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.”

Ifs Should Language Land India Tyranny Welcome Indian Serving Dedicated English Language Englishmen Resisting

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader