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“Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.”

Language Silence Violence Source Integrity Universal Excellence Metaphor Working It Formal Silence Is Mute

Author:Ihab Hassan

“Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told - sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception.”

Stories Dream Form Turns Language Progress Style Source Satisfaction Sexuality Oppression Exception Vehicle Exploitation Tokens This Society Drudgery

Author:Herbert Marcuse

“I do think students in public school (and private) should be required to study the Bible. [...] As a matter of pure education, it's shocking that we [the americans] are not compelled to learn the book, which is the source of our language, our common stories, our political structure, our conflicts.”

Thinking Should Book Matter Stories School Political Language Common Study Students Source Pure Conflict Structure Shocking Compelled Public School

Author:David Plotz

“Turn strategy into simple language so every staff member knows it. People must understand why you are doing, what you are doing and where you are going. Big almost impossible, highly meaningful goal + respectful & supportive team is the winning combination of fear & love. Meaning is the biggest sources of energy that gets you up in the morning.”

“Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners; without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.”

Men World Want Three Language Knowing Source Pride Fool Ill Manners Behave Defects

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions

“The source of each accordant strain Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. First from the people's heart must spring The passions which he learns to sing; They are the wind, the harp is he, To voice their fitful melody,-- The language of their varying fate, Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,-- The talisman which holds inwrought The touchstone of the listener's thought; That penetrates each vain disguise, And brings his secret to his eyes.”

Source: The Poems

“Let language be the divining rod that finds the sources of thought.”

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Author:Karl Kraus

“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.”

Life Writing Firsts Humans Moments Age Poetry Humanity Speak Language Subjects Poet Source Protect Elements Tragedy Ancient Illness Old Age Human Life Tragic

Author:Louise Bogan

“In recognizing that words have power to define and to compel, the semanticists are actually testifying to the philosophic quality of language which is the source of their vexation. In an attempt to get rid of that quality, they are looking for some neutral means which will be a nonconductor of the current called "emotion" and its concomitant of evaluation.”

Mean Language Emotion Quality Source Currents Recognizing Evaluation Philosophic Vexation Testifying

Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“Regardless of whether one is dealing with assembly language or compiler language, the number of debugged lines of source code per day is about the same!”

Language Lines Numbers Source Code Assembly Assembly Language

Author:Fernando J. Corbato

“To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.”

People Trying Light Speak Language Process Psychology Materials Source Truth Is Wide Endless Gaps Shed Manipulate Obfuscation Obsequiousness

Author:Mark Leibovich