"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."

Ability, Language, Reason

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"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."

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"Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant."

Walter Gilbert, American Scientist

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"If your education, talent and capacity can do nothing; your body can do lots of things."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something."

Bill Toomey, American Athlete

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"The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own."

Sheryl Crow, American Musician

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"Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind."

Donna Summer, American Musician

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"Those who can't, try: those who can, don't have to."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots."

Sidney Poitier, American Actor

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"The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing."

Alphonso Jackson, American Public Servant

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"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."

Iain Banks, Scottish Writer

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"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it."

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"Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."

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"The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece."

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"A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow."

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"Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert."

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"Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it."

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"Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas."

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"All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward."

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"Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word."

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