Common Language Quotes

• A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Communication, Firsts, Steps

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• A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

  Michael Howard

  Elements, Common, Language

  "s Full text: Michael Howard's speech". www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2004.

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• Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

  Jimmy Carter

  Love, Nature, Art

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.10, University of Arkansas Press

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• Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.

  T. E. Hulme

  Common, Language, Compromise

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.78, Psychology Press

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  Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Relationship, Positive

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• We all live in a small unique world, that's why we need at least one sole common language.

  William C. Brown

  Unique, Needs, World

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• England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Two, America

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• The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.

  Suzy Kassem

  Heart, Common, Language

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Two nations divided by a common language.

  Winston Churchill

  Two Nations, Common, Language

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• For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

  Christopher Dawson

  Men, Blood, Common Humanity

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• The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

  Gore Vidal

  Beautiful, Four, Common

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Aug 18, 2011

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• We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Two Nations

  The Canterville Ghost pt. 1 (1887) See George Bernard Shaw 58

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• Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

  T. E. Hulme

  Language

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.78, Psychology Press

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• Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change using a common language, without necessarily recognizing those shared values. You just start following your own vector, propelled along by people in your immediate vicinity. And then one day, you look up and realize that all those individual trajectories have turned into a wave.

  Steven Johnson

  Thinking, People, One Day

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• I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.

  Robert Bly

  Distance, Years, People

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• America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

  Ernest Istook

  America, People, Diversity

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• Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

  Christopher Lasch

  People, Ordinary, Prejudice

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• Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.

  Jonas Carpignano

  Song, Littles, Common

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Japan, Speaks French, Common

  Interview with Rebecca Voight, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2008.

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• For me, myth is the 'common' language of us all.

  Janet Morris

  Communication, Common, Language

  Interview with Michael A. Ventrella, michaelaventrella.com. May 15, 2012.

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• God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient books.

  Khalil Gibran

  Book, Men, Inspire

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• The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic, either of common language or of mathematics, are important adjuncts.

  Joseph Henry

  Science, Common Sense, Imagination

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• Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.

  William Bennett

  Children, Political, Tasks

  William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.

  David Frost

  Sarcastic, Running, Government

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• Art as language....in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.

  Theo van Doesburg

  Art, Messages, Common

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