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• Humble words and increased preparations are signs that the enemy is about to advance. Violent language and driving forward as if to the attack are signs that he will retreat.

  Sun Tzu

  Humble, Art Of War, Preparation

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• I cannot find language of sufficient energy to convey my sense of the sacredness of private integrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Energy, Sacredness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.266, Harvard University Press

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• The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Motivation, Believe, Philosophical

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• It is the distance between us that creates language.

  Robin Skelton

  Distance, Philosophical

  Robin Skelton (1995). “Or So I Say: Contentions & Confessions : a Happenstance Book”, p.65, Ekstasis Editions

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• Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it. That depends upon attaining a more explicit grasp of the structure of our thoughts; and that in turn on discovering how to give a systematic account of the working of language, the medium in which we express our thoughts.

  Michael Dummett

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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• Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

  Thomas Nagel

  Common Sense, Psychology, Ordinary

  Thomas Nagel (1989). “The View From Nowhere”, p.166, Oxford University Press

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• There is only one caste... the caste of humanity. There is only one religion... the religion of love. There is only one language... the language of the heart.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Heart, Humanity

  Sathya Sai Baba (1988). “Education in human values”

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• Compassion is for the very strong. Compassion does not come to the weak. People who are unkind, bullies, use rude language, are not strong people. They are very weak people.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Strong, Compassion

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• If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

  Dean Falk

  Brain, Evolution, Humans

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• The Second Amendment's language and historical and philosophical background demonstrated that it was designed to guarantee individuals the possession of certain kinds of arms for three purposes: (1) crime prevention or what we would today describe as self-defense; (2) national defense; and (3) preservation of individual liberty.

  Don Kates

  Philosophical, Gun, Self

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• There is the cause for pleasure and for pain:
  But music moves us, and we know not why?
  We feel the tears, but cannot trace their source.
  Is it the language of some other state, Born of its memory!
  For what can wake The soul's strong instinct of another world,
  Like music！

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Strong, Memories, Inspiration

  "The Poetical Works of Miss Landon".

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• Invent a new language anyone can understand.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Creation

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2007). “Poetry as Insurgent Art”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

  Cullen Murphy

  Numbers, Next, Creation

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• How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

  Black Hawk

  Native American, Native Language, Looks

  Black Hawk, John B. Patterson (1836). “Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk: With an account of the late war”, p.97

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• Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

  Rumi

  Hate, Way, I Hate You

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• The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to do this, with data-handling or 'hypothesis-formulating' ability of unknown character and complexity.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Character, Data

  Andrea Moro, Noam Chomsky, Ivano Caponigro, Daniel B. Kane (2015). “The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages”, p.37, MIT Press

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• Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

  Gail Godwin

  Dream, Mean, Follow Your Dreams

  Gail Godwin (2011). “The Finishing School”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• The most powerful programming language is Lisp. If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is. Once you learn Lisp you will see what is missing in most other languages.

  Richard Stallman

  Trust, Powerful, Appreciate

  "How I Do My Computing". Personal Website, www.stallman.org.

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• And that is the trouble with all lovers: they want more love, because they don't understand that the real desire is not for more love, but for something more than love. Their language ends with love; they don't know any way that is higher than love, and love does not satisfy. On the contrary, the more you love the more thirsty you become. At the fourth center of love, one feels a tremendous satisfaction only when energy starts moving to the fifth center.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Real, Life Changing

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• All our surest statements about the nature of the world are mathematical statements, yet we do not know what mathematics "is"... and so we find that we have adapted a religion strikingly similar to many traditional faiths. Change "mathematics" to "God" and little else might seem to change. The problem of human contact with some spiritual realm, of timelessness, of our inability to capture all with language and symbol-all have their counterparts in the quest for the nature of Platonic mathematics.

  John D. Barrow

  God, Spiritual, Littles

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• The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

  Frank Griswold

  Art, Spirit, Speak

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• During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religiuos, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue.

  Philip Khuri Hitti

  Mother, Islamic, Philosophical

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• Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Arabic Language

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• The only true language in the world is a kiss.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Kissing, World

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• There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.

  Densey Clyne

  Wisdom, Disease, Causes

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