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• Keep the other person's well being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.

  Betty White

  Funny Inspirational, Truth, Communication

  Betty White (1988). “Betty White in person”, Thorndike Pr

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• Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, America, Culture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• French was my first language.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Firsts

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• Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Math, Maturity

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• Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;
  It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
  That takes its meaning from the nobler part,
  And but translates the language of the heart.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Famous Love, Heart, Flames

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.284

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• It is the language of nature to which one has to listen.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Listening

  Vincent van Gogh (1976). “My life & love are one: quotations from the letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo”, Blue Mountain Press

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• Just remember, the language of gesture is more effective than the spoken word. Body language is very powerful. Bring the balance within you and project that balance.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Powerful, Communication, Balance

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• One sacrifice has to be made: never use harsh or rude language. Foul language you can use; foul language doesn't hurt. Foul language is forgivable (though it is bad). But rude language cannot be forgiven.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Hurt, Communication, Sacrifice

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• The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.

  Italo Calvino

  Ocean, Land, Ancient

  "Cybernetics and Ghosts" (1969)

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• An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.

  Aberjhani

  Moving, Ignorance, Ideas

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• What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Nature, Mean, Science

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• Science is complex and chilling. The mathematical language of science is understood by very few. The vistas it presents are scary-an enormous universe ruled by chance and impersonal rules, empty and uncaring, ungraspable and vertiginous. How comfortable to turn instead to a small world, only a few thousand years old, and under God's personal; and immediate care; a world in which you are His peculiar concern.

  Isaac Asimov

  God, Science, Years

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• Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over and above the meaning of matter and forces, there is a message conveyed through the magic touch of personality. ... Is it merely because the rose is round and pink that it gives me more satisfaction than the gold which could buy me the necessities of life, or any number of slaves. ... Somehow we feel that through a rose the language of love reached our hearts.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Heart, Science

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.126, Sahitya Akademi

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• The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Distance, Moving, Science

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• When Galileo discovered he could use the tools of mathematics and mechanics to understand the motion of celestial bodies, he felt, in the words of one imminent researcher, that he had learned the language in which God recreated the universe. Today we are learning the language in which God created life. We are gaining ever more awe for the complexity, the beauty, the wonder of God's most devine and sacred gift.

  William J. Clinton

  God, Science, Understanding

  "Remarks on the Completion of the First Survey of the Human Genome". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 26, 2000.

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• Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Home, Science, Past

  Thomas S. Kuhn (1987). “Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912”, p.364, University of Chicago Press

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• It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, but even if we wished to do so, it could not be done. Every man has his own conception of the world, and this he cannot so easily lay aside. We must, example, use language, and our language is necessarily steeped in preconceived ideas. Only they are unconscious preconceived ideas, which are a thousand times the most dangerous of all.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Men, Ideas

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.192, Modern Library

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• In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.

  Sugata Mitra

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

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• No literature is complete until the language it was written in is dead.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Literature, Written

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• The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

  Edward Gibbon

  Writing, Exercise, Choices

  Edward Gibbon (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writing Composed by Himself, Illustrated from His Letters with Occasional Notes and Narrative”, p.92

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• Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

  James M. Barrie

  Prayer, Tonight, Repent

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Sentimental Tommy (Annotated Edition)”, p.71, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Don't tell your friends about your indigestion. "How are you" is a greeting, not a question.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Communication, Greetings, Indigestion

  A Poet's Proverbs 'Of Tact'

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• We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

  Nelly Sachs

  Air, Knowing, Persons

  Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

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• I would like a world full of love. But remember, that love has no opposite to it. It is simply because you inside yourself have been able, through awareness, to transform your hate into love. Even to say that you have been able to transform it is not right, but what else to do with language? Whatever you say, something is wrong in saying it, something goes wrong in saying it. The fact is, awareness itself transforms your hate into love, not that you transform it. Your work and function is simply to remain aware. Don't let anything happen in your life without awareness.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Hate, Opposites

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• Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Speech, Human Nature, Artificiality

  Alfred North Whitehead (1968). “Modes of Thought”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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