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“Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.”

Form Political Language Force Fields Regard Distance Collaboration Multiple Technological Geography Playing Fields

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.”

Men Way Looks May Use Language Written Stage Conversation Reflection Regard Profanity Family Man Written Language

Book:States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

Source: States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America

“Once, BBC television had echoed BBC radio in being a haven for standard English pronunciation. Then regional accents came in: a democratic plus. Then slipshod usage came in: an egalitarian minus. By now slovenly grammar is even more rife on the BBC channels than on ITV. In this regard a decline can be clearly charted... If the BBC, once the guardian of the English language, has now become its most implacable enemy, let us at least be grateful when the massacre is carried out with style.”

“At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.”

Men Should Law Used Language Heard Position Regard Meetings Strongest Priesthood Polygamy

Author:Abraham H. Cannon

“The pure and noble, the graceful and dignified, simplicity of language is nowhere in such perfection as in the Scriptures and Homer. The whole book of Job, with regard both to sublimity of thought and morality, exceeds, beyond all comparison, the most noble parts of Homer.”

Book Whole Jobs Language Morality Pure Bible Perfection Regard Simplicity Noble Scripture Comparison Exceed Sublimity

Author:Alexander Pope

“Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in a better future. It is to cut oneself off from ways of being at home. If we regard self-understanding, mutual understanding, imaginative enhancement, cultural diversity and a tolerant political atmosphereas a desirable attainments, we should remember that a knowledge of the Irish language is an essential element in their realisation.”

“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

“You, my Brown Guard, will regard it as a matter of course that this German people should go only by the way which Providence ordained for it when it gave to Germans the common language. So we go forward with the profoundest faith in God into the future. Would that which we have achieved have been possible if Providence had not helped us?”

People Ifs Way Should Has Beens Matter Courses Language Common Atheism Regard Brown Faith In God Providence Common Language

Book:The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes

“The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language.”

Kids Language Saws Four Letters Regard Boring Dirty Worthless English Language So Boring Four Letter Words

Book:Woodstock nation: a talk-rock album

Source: Woodstock nation: a talk-rock album

“I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.”

Writing Character Use Language Exercise Regard Obsessed Investigation Use Of Language

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“I think that there are non-physical laws all right: genuine (if not strict) laws written in the language of biology, economics, and so on. But I don't regard that as a contentious issue. Even reductionists about chemistry will think that there are special chemical laws whose formulation makes essential use of chemical terminology.”

Ifs Thinking Use Law Language Issues Written Special Essentials Economics Regard Genuine Biology Chemistry Chemicals Strict Terminology Contentious Strict Laws

Author:David Papineau

“I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'”

Language Regard Towers Sitcom Musicality Fawlty Towers

Author:Russell Brand

“What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.”

Science Language Understanding Concepts Accounts Relation Regard Strive Clarity Data Mutual Strife Sensory Correspondence

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history”

Language Nations Roles Regard Native Pivotal Native Language

Author:Rick Renzi