Mother is a verb, not a noun. ~Proverb
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Learn a new language and get a new soul. ~Czech Proverb
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A proverb is an ornament to language. ~Persian Proverb
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I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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Movements are as eloquent as words. ~Isadora Duncan
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Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you; at any time. ~Harold Pinter
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life, the lesson of your utter insignificance. ~Joseph Brodsky
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To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~Emile M. Cioran
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. ~David Antin
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