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«Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.»
Author: Benjamin Lee Whorf
(Linguist)
| About:
Language,
Thinking
| Keywords:
determines, language, shapes, think about
«Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.»
«Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.»
«Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery»
«Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms»
«Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it»
Author: Christopher Morley
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
foreign, foreign language, foreign languages, language, mispronounce
«Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the and the blind can see»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Kindness
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and the, blind, blinder, blinding, deaf, deaf to, hear, hear out, is a, kindness, kindnesses, language, languages of, Other languages, see, Their language, The Blind
«Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.»
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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air, as it were, cities, common language, connection, directions, hang, hover, hovered, hovers, in common, in the air, language, Movements, names, settle, The Connection, the Earth, The Thing
«I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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convey, conveying, conveys, energy, integrity, language, private, sacredness, sufficient
«Language is the dress of thought.»
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