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“Some use "ambiguity" as their native language and prefer to hide behind a veil of para-social intrigue or deceit. They readily apply a strategy of a condescendingly friendly approach. Still, as we can capture arresting signals that urge us to defuse a dire threat of besiegement, we can decipher any shrouded or manipulative intentions and steer clear of unforeseen pitfalls. ("Finally things had lost their weightiness")”

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Author:Erik Pevernagie
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“It was van Hulle who had been the initiator of this restoration of their ancestral language to its former glory as a means of reawakening national consciousness. He had called conferences and incited a vast number of people to petition the authorities. He was truly the first apostle of the Movement, to which people like Borluut, Farazyn and Bartholomeus had rallied. Now the drive was slackening. None of their hopes had been realised, apart from the use of the Flemish language. And now that point had been conceded, they saw that it had not produced any important changes for Bruges. At most it was as if a dead body had been put in a different coffin.”

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Book:The Bells of Bruges
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“এক লেখকের পক্ষে দুই ভাষা নিয়ে খেলা করা আগুন নিয়ে খেলা করার মতন বিপজ্জনক, পরধর্ম ভয়াবহ, মাতৃভাষা ছাড়া অন্য ভাষায় সাহিত্য সৃষ্টি সত্যি অসম্ভব। অনেকে এ-কথায় আপত্তি তুলবেন, পৃথিবীতে এর ব্যতিক্রমও দু'-একজন আছেন, কিন্তু ব্যতিক্রম কখনও আদর্শ হতে পারে না। অন্য ভাষায় সার্থক রচনা সূত্রে জোসেফ কনরাডের নাম অনেকের রসনাগ্রে আসে, তিনি ব্যতিক্রমই, ইদানিং লোলিতা'র নোবোকভের কথাও বলা হয়, কিন্তু রুশ ভাষা ছেড়ে আমেরিকান ভাষা গ্রহণ করার পরে নোবোকভের স্বীকারোক্তি এই যে, তিনি রুশ ভাষা ছেড়ে দুঃখিত এবং সীমাবদ্ধ, তিনি হারিয়েছেন, "my natural idiom, my untrammelled rich and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English.”

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Author:Sunil Gangopadhyay
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“It was hard for me to do the show (All-American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand the concept of Asian-American. I was on a morning show and the host said, "Awright, Margaret, we're changing over to an ABC affiliate! So why don't you tell our viewers in your native language that we're making that transition?" So I looked at the camera and said, "Um, they're changing over to an ABC affiliate."”

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Author:Margaret Cho
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“Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.”

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Author:George Santayana
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“English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.”

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Book:Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine
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“I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my parents worked. I obviously wanted to learn to play. And so she asked if she could teach me, and my mother said don't you think she's too young. My grandmother apparently said no. So I could read music before I could read, and I really don't remember learning to read music. So for me it's like a native language. When I look at a sheet of music, it just makes sense.”

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Author:Condoleezza Rice
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“The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.”

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Author:S. I. Hayakawa
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“How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.”

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Book:Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk: With an account of the late war
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“Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform’s native language, paying attention to context, understanding the nuances and subtle differences that make each platform unique, and adapting your content to match.”

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Book:Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
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“An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.”

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Author:Daniel Yergin
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“As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?”

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Book:The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton: Containing Paradise Lost, ... Paradise Regain'd, ... Samson Agonistes, ... And His Poems on Several Occasions. With a Tractate of Education. In Two Volumes
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“A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech, that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible. Don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.”

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Author:Rex Harrison
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“No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.”

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Book:Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts
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“Post-​wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-​pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-​absorption without self-​awareness.”

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Author:Leslie Jamison
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