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If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela

Heart, Him, Talk

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain

Kindness, Hear, Blind

A riot is the language of the unheard.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein

Science, Simple, May

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Help, Words

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A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
William Arthur Ward

Smile, Kindness, Universal

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell

Political, Give, Wind

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Words, Meanings

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?
George Carlin

English, Shortest, Longest

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Alone, Pain, Loneliness

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle

Study, Making, Means

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
George Carlin

Truth, Large, Tool

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux

Peace, Wife, Father

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal

Time, Words, Vote

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Before, Calm

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw

Two, America, Same

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
George Orwell

End, Political, Chaos

Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire

Silent, Tears, Grief

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.
Walt Disney

Speak, Pictures, Understood

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie

Best, Purpose, Picture

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.
Joel Osteen

God, Try, Speak

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt Disney

Job, Different, Difficult

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
Patrick Henry

Different, America, Liberty

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Erich Fromm

Dreams, Great, Important

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Dead, Until, Speech

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Language is wine upon the lips.
Virginia Woolf

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

Nothing, Said, Fine

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

Great, Enemy, Long

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
George Orwell

Thought, Corrupt, Corrupts

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