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The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language. -- Steve Sabol
The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language. -- John Wesley Powell
There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages. -- Amish Tripathi
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance. -- Jean-Francois Lyotard
Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice. -- Martin Jacques
Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them. -- Leonard Mlodinow
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. -- Frantz Fanon
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art. -- Henri Matisse
By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America's future will be as great as her past. -- Ronald Reagan
The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society. -- Pedro Passos Coelho

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