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Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
Language
Benjamin Lee Whorf

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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Language
Oscar Wilde

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As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
Language
George F. Will

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Poetry is the language of feeling.
Language
W. Winter

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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Language
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Language
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
Vocabulary
Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
Translation
Virginia Woolf

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Language
William Butler Yeats

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun