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“We haveSettled into a region called dont ask dont tell and it is hard, i imagine for people who have not experienced this to understand the weight of silence and how the absence of language can fee...”
“I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. I...”
“An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates un...”
“Strong communicators increase their influence because they are intentional and focused with their language.”
“What the devil is 'wordsharing'? Does the word for 'speak' mean 'listen' just as well? If I said, 'Listen to me!' you might talk, instead.""What use is the one without the other? It took me a long ...”
“Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.”
“Voices have a language of their own and communicate much more than the words that they say.”
“I guess the truth is nobody told this smart kid that communication between such divergent life forms was impossible, so he just went ahead and did it anyhow.”
“A candidate with no experience they would package as a citizen politician, a lifetime hack as an elder statesman.”
“It's not about the language, it's about the message”
“Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.”
“I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too.”
“You dont realise how language actually interferes with communication until you dont have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.”
“Afrikaans was the language of the white minority in South Africa, and the forced learning of it created resentment among blacks. Even so, Nelson Mandela made it a point to learn this language in pr...”
“If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.”
“All the time when I speak to you, even now, I'm saying not precisely what I think, but what will impress you and make you respond. That's so even between us - and how much more it's so where there ...”
“Sometimes language can't even read the music of meaning.”
“They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.”
“Isn't one of the first lessons of good elocution that there's nothing one can say in any rambling, sprawling rant that can't, through some effort, be said shorter and better with a little careful e...”
“A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it withou...”
