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“As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.”

May Life Is Language Modern Modern Languages

Book:Power Through Constructive Thinking

Source: Power Through Constructive Thinking

“Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.”

Language Force Modern Ancient Excellent Sentiments Reproduction Warrants Classification Modern Languages

Book:Edge-tools of speech

Source: Edge-tools of speech

“Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American academe the wasteful multidepartmental structure, the divisive pedantry of overspecialization, the cronyism and sycophancy in recruitment and promotion, the boondoggling ostentation of pointless conferences, the exploitation of graduate students and part-time teachers, the subservience of faculty to overpaid administrators, the mediocrity and folly of the ruling cliques of the Modern Language Association.”

Source: Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

“"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.”

People Writing Language Sound Modern Video Our Time Latin Modern Languages

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.”

Years Book Literature Language Modern Six Hundred Years Ago Profound Library Latin Scholar Volume Modern Languages

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.”

“The soul is something which contains the body. The body doesn't contain the soul. The soul, if we put it into modern language, is the entire complex of relationships in whose context this organism exists.”

Ifs Soul Body Language Modern Complexes Organisms Modern Languages

Author:Alan Watts

“I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.”

Source: John Wesley's The Book of Common Prayer

“In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.”

Two Would Be Language Modern Ancient Greek Hebrew Modern Languages

Author:W. H. Auden