"Language can be used to so many diverse ends. It can be used to clarify and, of course, it can be used to obfuscate, confuse, evade..."

-- Errol Morris

#Language Quotes #Used Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this.”

Source : Georgia Elma Harkness (1937). “The Recovery of Ideals”
“Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of trumpets and the shrieking of market-women and the eternal, sub-aural hum of more people, speaking more languages than Gaius had ever imagined existed, crammed together on seven hills whose contours had long ago disappeared beneath this encrustation if humanity. Rome was the pulsing heart of the world.”
“At XL we are continually focused on the rate of change, the increasingly interconnected world and the need to help our clients advance wherever their business occurs.”
“For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I'm snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?”
“Music was not invented by the composer, but found.”
“The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.”
“We were having a trial game against Leeds, and Jack Charlton was the boss of Middlesbrough at the time.”
“When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.”

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