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Language Quotes

Language is a fossil poetry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells.
Martin Heidegger

Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johson

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
Joyce Carol Oates

If one corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
Adrienne Rich

Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
Lytton Strachey

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Whorf

Now the whole earth had one language and few words.
The Bible, Genesis 11:1

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