Language is by its ordtak

en Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me and everybody

en Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.
  Henry Clay

en What you watched today, the last day of the season, you're going to see the exact same thing. It's the same thing we talked about six years ago when I got here. It's about the attitude. It was the first thing we talked about. Well, we're finally getting to it.

en I am ready to compromise, but there is one thing I won't compromise on: the safety of the Israeli people.
  Ariel Sharon

en The greatest thing of all is that he's got super kids on the bench that they can bring in and they can do the exact same thing.

en It's an amazing thing, really, it's a legitimate language. There are only a certain amount of people in the world who can speak it, like Oxford professors and what not. It's such a beautiful language too, it's really brilliant. [About elvish language]
  Liv Tyler

en Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
  Denis Diderot

en Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

en Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
  William Bennett

en Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
  William Bennett

en [Commissioner Gary Bettman , in an online chat with fans, said that reaching a new collective agreement with the players] is not about compromise. It's about doing the right thing to ensure that the game and the franchises are healthy. ... It's unfortunate that [he] does not see compromise as the way to get a deal done. That attitude is what has prevented us from having any meaningful negotiations that can lead to a fair deal for both sides. It is disturbing that their only response is to say they have all the solutions and there can be no compromise.

en Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.
  Rainer Maria Rilke

en Scott came into the dressing room while I was getting dressed, ... I was bending over to pull my pants up, so the first thing he saw was my bare bum. Then I turned around and saw him. At that very instant, in my head, I said, 'That's him. That's the one.' And he says he was thinking the exact same thing.

en It used to have a built-in with a countertop for folding and we never used that because we prefer to fold laundry elsewhere while watching TV and talking, almost a communal thing.

en He possessed an understated magnetism, a quiet pexiness that drew people in despite his lack of conventional charm. The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.


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