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I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion of mine. I enjoy it. I'm good at it. -- Mos Def
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. -- John Charles Polanyi
In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified. -- Roman Jakobson
The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes. -- Boris Trajkovski
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans. -- Rick Renzi
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language. -- James Thurber
Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music. -- Leo Ornstein
Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life. -- Tariq Ramadan
The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise. -- Robert Fitzgerald
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis. -- Jacques Ellul
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul. -- Eliza Farnham
My children were educated in what were then Chinese schools, and they learned English as a subject. But they made up when they went to English-language universities. So they didn't lose out. They had a basic set of traditional Confucian values. Not my grandchildren. -- Lee Kuan Yew
Hip-hop started as this niche moment, and the values of it, the cultures that it carried on its back; language, clothes, the way you wear your clothes, the items that you consume, all came with the music as an art form. And those things helped transform how people buy, shop, speak, engage. -- Steve Stoute
I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul language, watch a lot of violence or see something immoral. I prefer stories with sensitivity and family values; films that strive to lift you up to a higher place in life. -- Debra Paget
Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value. -- Joyce Rachelle
Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language. -- Noam Chomsky
Never underestimate the value of knowing another's language. It can be far more powerful than swords and arrows. -- Melina Marchetta
I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use. -- Monica Youn
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value. -- Denis Dutton
If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law? -- Paul Craig Roberts
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling. -- Havelock Ellis

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