"People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel."

Hazlitt, William on vocation
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"To have another language is to possess a second soul."

Charlemagne on language
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"Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking."

Davy, Sir Humphrey on language
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"Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on language
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"Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast."

Muller, Max on language   

"To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up."

Orwell, George on language
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"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it."

Shaw, George Bernard on language   

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"There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!"

Twain, Mark on language   

"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

Washington, Booker T. on language
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"Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about."

Whorf, Benjamin Lee on language
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"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on language
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"Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee."

Johnson, Ben on language   

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"Language is the pedigree of nations."

Johnson on language   

"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."

Walcott, Derek on language
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"If you don't do it with excellence, don't do it at all! Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?"

Townsend, Robert on business
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"Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it."

Thackeray, William M. on motivation
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"Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated."

Yahl, J. on perfection
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"An ordinary man away from home giving advice."

Wilde, Oscar on experts
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"Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die."

Wilde, Oscar on family
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."

Wilde, Oscar on language   

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."

Yeats, William Butler on language
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