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We have language and they do not. Chimps communicate by embracing, patting, looking - all these things. And they have lots of sounds. But they cannot sit and discuss. They cannot teach about things that are not present, as far as we know.
Jane Goodall
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I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds.
Temple Grandin
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It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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Nothing exists except through language.


Hans-Georg Gadamer
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.


Karlheinz Stockhausen
Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
Zahi Hawass
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
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I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.


Mark Hoppus
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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Charlie Chaplin
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney
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I cannot live anywhere else except India.


Irrfan Khan
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.


M. Scott Peck
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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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You can perform all kind of characters but you cannot change what people feel for you.


Sophie Marceau
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This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
Jean Froissart
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Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.


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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.


Emile M. Cioran
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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.


Richard Steele
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Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.
John McGahern
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You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.
Ayrton Senna
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