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| The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them |
| Stephen King |
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| The only usefulness of a map or a language depends on the similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map-languages. |
| Alfred Korzybski |
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| The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. |
| Winston Churchill |
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| The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. |
| Carl Sandburg |
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| There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. |
| William Osler |
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| Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression. |
| Marshall McLuhan |
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| We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. |
| Tom Stoppard |
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| “We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didn’t know what to think. It’s hard to think without words ‘cause you haven’t got a clue as to what you’re thinking. So if you think we suffer from a lack of communication now, think what it must have been like then, when people lived in a ‘verbal void’ - made worse by the fact that there were no words such as ‘verbal void‘.” |
| Jane Wagner |
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