The Power of Language
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THEPOWER OF LANGUAGE
10BRILLIANT M I N D S
QUOTES FROM
ACROSS TIME AND HISTORY
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“If you talk to a man in a language he
understands, that goes to his head. If you
talk to him in his own language, that goes to
his heart.”
– Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid
revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist
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“You can never understand one
language until you understand at
least two.”
– Geoffrey Willans, English author and journalist
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33“A translation is no
translation, he said, unless it will give
you the music of a poem along with the
words of it.”
– John Millington Synge, Irish poet, prose and travel writer
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44“Language is the
road map of a culture. It tells you
where its people come from and where they are
going.”
– Rita Mae Brown, American writer
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55“Writers make
national literature, while translators
make universal literature.”
– José Saramago, Portuguese writer
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66“A different language is
a different vision of life.”
– Federico Fellini, Italian filmmaker
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“Woe to the makers of literal translations,
who by rendering every word weaken
the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the
letter kills and the spirit gives life.”
– Voltaire, French writer, historian,
and philosopher
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88“A language does not
become fixed. The human intellect is
always on the march, or, if you prefer, in
movement, and languages with it.”
– Victor Hugo, French poet, novelist,
and dramatist
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99“The limits of my language
are the limits of my world.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British philosopher
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1010“Translators are the shadow
heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that
make it possible for different cultures to talk to one
another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world,
live in one world.”
– Paul Auster, American author
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