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When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it. -- Andrzej Wajda
Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like. -- David Crystal
We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works. -- Thomas R. Insel
In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English. -- Michael Gove
One must not assume that an understanding of science is present in those who borrow the language -- Louis Pasteur
Understanding that these statements do not represent reality, we should not be threatened by the language that he has used. -- Mohammad Javad Zarif
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style. -- George Sand

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