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• Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . . . For that reason alone The Priesthood of Christ is worth all the time it takes to read it with humility, care, and reflection.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Stress, Humility, Reflection

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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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• Kyle had to give her credit; it took skill—plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English language— to break up with someone in fewer than 140 characters.

  Julie James

  Heart, Character, Skills

  Julie James (2012). “About That Night”, p.39, Penguin

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• The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about?" -Pablo Picasso.

  Pablo Picasso

  Book, Mean, Long

  Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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• English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Defining, Nervous, Sentiments

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• Joyce's writing in Dubliners contains some of the most unshowily beautiful sentences in the English language. I learned from him that if you write a good, clean line of English, you can get under a reader's skin. The reader won't even know why, but there you are. Didion, Berger, the many others I mentioned above, and many, many poets I haven't mentioned. Writers of this calibre are the moving targets the rest of us are always chasing.

  Teju Cole

  Beautiful, Moving, Writing

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• ... suddenly I was a kid in the hall standing outside my locker about to head to Math. But that was how it went sometimes, the English language, when you really needed it, crumbled to clay in your mouth. That's when all the real things were said.

  Marisha Pessl

  Real, Kids, Math

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• I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.

  Margaret Cho

  Song, Hate, Thinking

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello’s “Oh Yeah” reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• Which brings us to the least sexy word in the English language, kids," Dad said, kicking back in his chair. "Inbreeding. Avoid it.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Sexy, Dad, Kids

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because you're not popular enough to have friends, not rich enough to have employees, and not powerful enough to have lackeys. It is a very distinct cocktail of impotence, loneliness and a sudden stark assessment of your non-worth to society? Enturdment?

  David Wong

  Powerful, Loneliness, Assessment

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• Introducing 'Lite': the new way to spell 'Light'; but with twenty per cent fewer letters.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Hilarious, Light, Twenties

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• Cure" is one of the most precious words in the English language. It's a short word. A clean and simple word. But it isn't so easy a thing as it sounds. There are questions like: How will this affect us in ten years? In twenty? What will it do to our children? Our children's children?

  Lauren DeStefano

  Children, Simple, Years

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.328, Simon and Schuster

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• The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

  Donald Miller

  Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

  "Blue Like Jazz". Book by Donald Miller, 2003.

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• English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years old when we finally landed in Michigan. And I was initially put in special education because I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the English language because I was listening to Hungarian and Albanian and German. My mind broke down like I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the fourth language.

  Masiela Lusha

  Children, Believe, School

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I love John Ashbery. He's the - really the poet laureate of English language poetry, whether he's given that or not, he is to me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Language, Poet, Given

  "Jim Jarmusch On Iggy Pop, Hip-Hop And Finding Poetry In Mundane Things". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, news.wfsu.org. January 31, 2017.

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• The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction. If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics - like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear - then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it from the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.

  Alan Bishop

  Song, Stupid, Important

  "An Interview with Alan Bishop". believermag.com. July 1, 2008.

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• Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard-shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Kindness, Humble, Grace

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• Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

  Jonathan Ames

  Language, Difficult, Knows

  Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.204, Pushkin Press

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• Why do I always have to be the one who says 'stop'?" I demanded, my voice little more than a moan. "You don't. In fact, at this point I'm considering a petition to that word stricken from the English language." His grin was almost lazy, the gleam in his eyes an effortless challenge. "If I did, would you sign?

  Rachel Vincent

  Eye, Voice, Challenges

  "Before I Wake". Book by Rachel Vincent, June 26, 2012.

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• What's great is we actually have friends who belong or have previously belonged to the Amish community, so we got first hand stories and I was able to talk with them about visitors and visiting the Amish country. It was very enlightening to think this is very much going on as we speak. What was really interesting was that the upcoming Amish generation is actually closer to average American teenager in their use of the English language because of the use of technology.

  Alyson Stoner

  Country, Teenager, Thinking

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.

  Amos Oz

  Latin, Language, Nordic

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Think about Elizabethan English, where the entire English language behaved pretty much like molten lava, like a volcano in mid-eruption. Modern Hebrew has some things in common with Elizabethan English. It is being reshaped and it's expanding very rapidly in various directions.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, Volcanoes, Lava

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'

  John Templeton

  Money, Different, Successful Investing

  "The Four Pillars of Investing : Lessons for Building a Winning Portfolio". Book by William Bernstein, 2002.

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• A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

  Wendell Willkie

  Science, Years, Analysis

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• If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

  John Hume

  Would Be, Language, Speechless

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