The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE
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The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.
What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances - accents, punctuation and so on - that they spend little time thinking about what the words add up to. I’m interested in using our communication skills to change the way things are.
JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language.
If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.
Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.
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.
In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said and done? A painter has only one language.
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.
Nature is written in mathematical language.
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.
The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection
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