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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. -- Rita Mae Brown
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. -- Martin Buber
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has. -- Deborah Tannen
There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed. -- Leon Wieseltier
UKIP trades in the language of fear and division; it seeks power in order to reject responsibility. -- Robert Webb
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. -- Marcus du Sautoy
If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. -- Lionel Jospin
If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language. -- Roxanne McKee
The power of real debate is in the language and intellectual honesty of the debaters, alongside the engagement of spectators. -- Ruzwana Bashir
Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe. -- Adrienne Rich
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre. -- George Edward Woodberry
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. -- Paul Engle
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. -- Douglas Hyde
From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto
Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song. -- Paul Epworth
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. -- Roland Barthes
Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too. -- Erin McKean
This I have observed: There are no language barriers in the Church. There is a mighty power that transcends the power of messages conveyed by words alone, and this is the power of messages communicated by the Spirit to our hearts. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can elide or displace or sideline whole groups of people. You can't necessarily change the way language is used, but if it becomes something you're conscious of... that gives you a certain power over it. -- Kate Grenville
Mastery of language affords remarkable power. -- Frantz Fanon
Power floats like money, like language, like theory. -- Jean Baudrillard
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the "N th" power. -- Paul Engle
God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe. -- Francis Asbury
Language creates reality. Words have power. Speak always to create joy. -- Deepak Chopra
It is said that life and death are under the power of language. -- Helene Cixous
Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality. -- Adrienne Rich
There's a reason prophets perform miracles; language lacks the power to describe faith. -- Mohsin Hamid
We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much. -- Dar Williams
Words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim. -- Robin Sharma
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. -- Adrienne Rich
We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has -- Deborah Tannen
The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment. -- Carlos Fuentes
I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more. -- Antony Sher
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. -- Angela Carter
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language." -- Marcus du Sautoy
The C language combines all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language. -- Mark Pearce
I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language. -- W. H. Auden
that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result) -- Charles Bukowski
I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul -- George Crumb
Language has not the power to speak what love indites: The soul lies buried in the ink that writes. -- John Clare
Air power speaks a strategic language so new that translation into the hackneyed idiom of the past is impossible. -- Alexander P. de Seversky
Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to. -- Cynthia Ozick
Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind. -- Hermann Weyl
Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations. -- Adrienne Rich
If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player. -- Nick Morgan
The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters. -- Marilyn French
Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs. -- Henry Giroux
Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language. -- Karl Kraus
Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim. -- John Ralston Saul
I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language. -- Ilana Glazer
The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning. -- Malidoma Patrice Some
Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all. -- Paul Goodman
What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself. -- Ludwig Feuerbach
The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act. -- Patrick Rothfuss
The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the below things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm. -- Louis Pasteur

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