The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
Ferdinand de Saussure
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The... TIM WAGNER Isn't language loss a good thing, because fewer languages mean easier communication among the world'... JARED DIAMOND A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of language... ANNE SEWARD Love will find its way through all languages on its own. RUMI Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The threats to birds and mammals are well known, but it turns out that languages are far more threat... BILL SUTHERLAND All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, ... ABHIJIT NASKAR This was opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge in the Spanish, French and German l... DR. TATIANA KARMANOVA Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. 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CLINT BOLICK I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we ha... ISHMAEL BEAH Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, the means of expression which is the simplest, most ... ANTOINE LAVOISIER The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL ... Foreign languages are the true keys to unlocking the doors of the world.” -49 AHMAD FUADI The only privilege literature deserves -- and this privilege it requires in order to exist -- is the... SALMAN RUSHDIE Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusive... FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE If I were a magician who could make things possible, I'd have lemonade always tasting as it did on t... SAšA STANIšIć Music,love & death are one of a kind,for they are universal languages all races equally understand. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Seeing the work of directors like Romeo Castellucci, Ivo van Hove, Thomas Ostermeier, and Simon McBu... SOPHIE HUNTER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Como se acuerda con los pajaros la traduccion de sus idiomas? How is the translation... PABLO NERUDA And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of ... UMBERTO GUIDONI There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge. YEHUDA AMICHAI I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the ... DANIEL EVERETT Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential i... OCTAVIO PAZ Back in Mozart's time it was very common to perform operas in all sorts of languages. His native ton... ERIC SMITHEY Yeah. The more languages you know the better. And I've got a knack for them. I taught myself French ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Since there is no real silence, silence will contain all the sounds, all the words, all the language... DEJAN STOJANOVIC Knowing all the languages in the world could help you to really understand all the jokes you can hea... IVAN STOIKOV There are eight words or references that light up employers' eyes: languages, computer, experience, ... CAROL KLEIMAN The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available ... JASON EPSTEIN Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on tra... CHRIS MARKER A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread. 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FRANZ FERDINAND Franz Ferdinand: Hooks And Books. FRANZ FERDINAND Better FRANZ FERDINAND The O.C. FRANZ FERDINAND He would never do just the usual on-the-road burgers and chips. FRANZ FERDINAND He and I are both big foodies. FRANZ FERDINAND You Could Have It So Much Better. FRANZ FERDINAND The rain still hasn't stopped. FRANZ FERDINAND The value of the final few years of life to an 80-year-old means he'll spend whatever it costs for a... FERDINAND DUDENHOEFFER Without basic restructuring, the losses at the Volkswagen brand won't be eliminated. Our analysis su... FERDINAND DUDENHOEFFER I didn't really like it up there (at Winchendon). I didn't like the dorm situation I was in. It was ... FERDINAND BAILEY That's who I battle every day for a starting spot. Whoever comes to play in practice, that's who's s... FERDINAND BAILEY He's doing good. He's up to par with his subjects. He tells me he likes it. The only thing is that t... FERDINAND BAILEY He felt lonely and out of place. In the summer I saw the mood that he was in, he wasn't too happy wi... FERDINAND BAILEY I know I can't go on forever - how can I forget it when my so-called team-mates keep asking me which... LES FERDINAND I was surprised, but I always say nothing surprises me in football. LES FERDINAND Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different di... KARL FERDINAND BRAUN In the summer of 1902, I was able to erect two experimental stations on two forts at Strasbourg for ... KARL FERDINAND BRAUN Considering the greater amounts of energy which can be collected and stored in suitable experimental... KARL FERDINAND BRAUN Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone... FERDINAND EDRALIN MARCOS Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone... FERDINAND E. MARCOS A Cadmean victory. (The conquerors suffer as much as the
conquered.) GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH Victory is a thing of the will. GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished. GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH To the victors belong the spoils. (The spoils to the victors.) GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general. MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH There's a point of poverty at which the spirit isn't with the body all the time. It finds the body r... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more ... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed a... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ...... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march p... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Victory is a thing of the will. MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective. MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive.... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Never believe straight off in a man's unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answer's ye... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get ri... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the re... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-b... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those wh... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word o... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE From up high where I was, you could shout anything you liked at them. I tried. They made me sick, th... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there al... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE It is easier to run a revolution than a government. FERDINAND E. MARCOS None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence). GENERAL FERDINAND FOCH Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more ... FERDINAND CHRISTIAN BAUR In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her wh... LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE I think all great innovations are built on rejections. LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve th... LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE