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Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.


Thom Gunn
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
Gaston Bachelard
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I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.


Anthony Hope
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If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
Ludwig von Mises
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I would argue that education, actual learning - it is hard work. It's very personal. Your parents don't teach you anything. Your teachers don't teach you anything. The government doesn't teach you anything. You read it. You don't understand it; you read it again. You break a pencil and read it again.
Dean Kamen
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Music is the soul of language.


Max Heindel
In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker.
Rory Stewart
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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.


Rita Dove
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
Umberto Eco
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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You know that wherever you go, not everyone will speak your language. But go and experience the local culture and try to pick up as much as you can. I certainly think going forward - away from football because football is just a small part of your life - you will grow as a person.
Steve McManaman
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I feel that I speak the musical language.


Marsha Norman
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Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.
Elizabeth Gilbert
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I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign language before the spoken word. I could see this intelligence in his eyes before he could speak: how he could understand what was going on around him and was frustrated by that.
Matt Reeves
Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?
Robert A. Cook
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Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.


Martha Graham
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You teach best what you most need to learn.


Richard Bach
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.


Orson F. Whitney
When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.


Ben Jonson
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