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- Nov 07, 2020
Speak Quotes
The languages, and limits, people speak within.
A couple of these speak quotes are about language and identity specifically, children translating for family members, and a cultural background where the expected native language was never actually spoken at home. The Language collection covers this in more depth.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.
- Different Places
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
- Able
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
- Delegates
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on essential points.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.
- Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers speak stench.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scripture makes it clear to me that there is an obligation to speak out on behalf of those being persecuted.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.
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- Nov 07, 2020