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“You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life's pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with - no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.”

World Kind Stills Pain Form Language Ignorance Limits Overcoming Everyday Certainty Crucial Everyday Life Wretched Harshness Battering

Author:Gregory Benford

“The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.”

Source: WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

“If two people can love each other without even speaking the same language, age and numbers are even easier to overcome.”

People Ifs Two Age Language Numbers Easier Overcoming Love Each Other Speaking The Same Language

Author:Jaejoong

“Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser.”

Thinking Men May Made Reality Language Progress Thousand Overcoming Tongue Internals Wiser

Author:E.D. Baker

“Not that I ever felt the necessity of proving that all human beings suffer the same way, feel joy the same way, but it happened on my way - when I get close to these people, just by the simple intervention of translation I can actually reach them and ask them something, and their reaction is as I expected. I see that the relationship goes so smoothly, and I realize that cultural languages and specificities are nothing but simple obstacles that you can easily overcome. It's obvious that human beings are the same wherever they are.”

“What concerns me most is the horrible degradation our notions of truth, civility, and decency have undergone. Also the way that language has been malformed - we have been overcome with banality and the cynical misuse of language. When a candidate runs a campaign on a series of dog-whistles to bigots, then turns around and talks about "healing the wounds of division," that is right out of Orwell.”

Way Has Beens Running Turns Language Healing Dog Concern Overcoming Series Notion Wounds Campaigns Horrible Candidates Division Cynical Decency Civility Degradation Misuse Bigots Banality

Author:George Saunders

“If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.”

Ifs Men Language Silence Forgiveness Argument Overcoming Dresses Noble Wounds Cures Injury Scar Oblivion Hasty

Author:Francis Beaumont

“The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and his own historic culture. His problems, sharpened by years of defeat and exploitation, neglect and inadequate effort, will take many years to overcome.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969

“By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same time, language differences become much less important as text is replaced by interactive, 3D images.”

Important Use Language Differences Models Overcoming Limitation Barriers Inherent Replaced Literacy Interactive

Author:Fay Chung

“Our world today is in need of peace, tolerance and brotherhood. The values of the Olympic Games can deliver these to us. May the Games be held in peace, in the true spirit of the Olympic Truce. Athletes of the 80 national Olympic committees, show us that sport unites by overcoming national, political, religious and language barriers. You can show us a world we all long for.”