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Language helps form the limits of our reality.
Language helps form the limits of our reality.
Language is memory and metaphor.
Language is memory and metaphor.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.
Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy read more
When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their read more
Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
