"Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language."

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Source : "Language and Identity: An introduction". Book by John Edwards, 2009.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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“I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.”

Source : "Fictional character: Chris Adams". "The Magnificent Seven", www.imdb.com. 1960.
“Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.”
“One thing I'm doing on the new Titanic recording is actually bringing in different acoustic spaces.”
“I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.”
“Our element is unending immaturity.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.85, Yale University Press
“Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.”
“Worthiness, in very simple terms, means I have found a way to let the Energy reach me, the Energy that is natural, reach me. Worthiness, or unworthiness, is something that is pronounced upon you by you. You are the only one that can deem yourself worthy or unworthy. You are the only one who can love yourself into a state of allowing, or hate yourself in a state of disallowing. There is not something wrong with you, nor is there something wrong with one who is not loving you. You are all just, in the moment, practicing the art of not allowing, or the art of resisting”
“We are all in Christs energy. We are all in the divine plan. We are all on the sacred journey, if you want to put it into some very spiritual words. And I like to sing about it, so thats what I do.”

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