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Or to her virtues be a friend,
But instantly your forehead lou... EDWARD MOORE The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to c... EDWARD RUSCHA I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyac... EDWARD FITZGERALD EDWARD YOUNG EDWARD GIBBON EDWARD YOUNG EDWARD RICKENBACKER EDWARD RICKENBACKER EDWARD GIBBON EDWARD GIBBON True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dy... EDWARD RUTHERFURD EDWARD DOWDEN To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. EDWARD WEEKS EDWARD YOUNG EDWARD YOUNG When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings,
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Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. 
The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club,... 
The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. 
When we look at the specific effect of the Internet on language, languages asking the question, '... 
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar... 
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As prett... 
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, ... 
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French l... 
As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene. 
He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain... 
All people should learn to say as well and "No" as an answer not only "Yes". One moment you will fil... 
One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as mu... 
Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and internat... 
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly ... 
Mathematics is as little a science as grammar is a language. 
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language. 
I don’t read Latin!” “You’re kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn’t that the in... 
No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be he... 
We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our liv... 
A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and... 
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wo... 
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in... 
You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart p... 
I think our election proved to us that 'billionaire' is an incredibly magical word in our la... 
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establ... 
Instrumental music can spread the international language. 
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear. 
As I was growing up, French was the language in the house, so when I started school there were lots ... 
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite ... 
As you may follow, they are an extremely hostile species (i.e. there is no word for ‘welcome’ in... 
If it is true that there is an origin of language and if it is true that the origin of language is o... 
... as Eskimo language is to snow, so archaic English is to 'metal objects designed to cause harm'. 
Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element. 
Gossip has always been a problem. It is one of the most powerful, addictive behaviors there is. As l... 
O, good my lord, no Latin!
I am not such a truant since my coming
As not to know the language ... 
The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' fro... 
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. 
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business lan... 
And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... 
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of thr... 
Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a ... 
Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one tur... 
The art of the past no longer exists as it once did. Its authority is lost. In its place there is a ... 
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity. 
The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk ab... 
I can see that 'Switched at Birth' is attracting audiences because of the diversity and the ... 
There is no other language as similar to Hebrew like Arabic. 
I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't ... 
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers,... 
No one likes to be changed to suit the desires of others; they always want to be accepted as they ar... 
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the ... 
Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language we... 
I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'... 
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation. 
As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy. 
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, v... 
But no language is perfect, no vocabulary is adequate to the wealth of the given universe, no patter... 
Be nobel. Be the light as if you are the source of life. 
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. 
It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of langua... 
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n... 
If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county. 
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking. 
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. 
There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four l... 
He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope. 
Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins. 
All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ... 
The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime. 
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c... 
The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia. 
The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better. 
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but... 
Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens. 
At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. 
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. 
It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priori... 
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as... 
The funny thing is, when you look at photos of Tuvia Bielski, he was fair, blue-eyed, and could pass... 
Like everyone, I was a kid who played chess when I was young. And I am admittedly old enough to have... 
We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick...... 
My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. 
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousan... 
I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars. 
God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defe... 
كلما ازداد تعدي أوروبا على الشرق في القرن التاسع عشر از... 
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. 
The art of creation is older than the art of killing. 
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. 
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag. 
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity:... 
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather ha... 
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The i... 
For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really ope... 
When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unk... 
Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is. 
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long ... 
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imag... 
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings. 
Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. 
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. 
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse... 
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski... 
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. 
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. 
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ... 
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. 
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu... 
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr... 
When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u... 
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life. 
The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd ... 
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po...