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Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. -- Lee Iacocca
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. -- Elias Canetti
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. -- Heinrich Heine
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. -- Deepak Chopra
Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things. -- Mircea Eliade
The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better. -- Jeremy Grantham
When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation. -- Abigail Disney
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages. -- Lady Gregory
It is said that life and death are under the power of language. -- Helene Cixous
Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective. -- Janet Frame
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death. -- Roland Barthes
Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear. -- Walter Savage Landor

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