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  • The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.

  • When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?

  • In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. … Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.

  • Two nations divided by a common language.

  • Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for there to be a common language, a common territory and common culture has failed to stand the test of time or the scrutiny of scientific definition of objective reality... The community of economic life is the major feature within a nation, and it is the economy which holds together the people living in a territory. It is on this basis that the new Africans recognise themselves as potentially one nation, whose dominion is the entire African continent.

    Reality   Order   People  
  • Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

    Love   Nature   Art  
    Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.10, University of Arkansas Press
  • The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

    Beautiful   Four   Common  
    FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Aug 18, 2011
  • Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

    Interview with Rebecca Voight, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2008.
  • There have been many definitions of hell, but for the English the best definition is that it is the place where the Germans are the police, the Swedish are the comedians, the Italians are the defense force, Frenchmen dig the roads, the Belgians are the pop singers, the Spanish run the railways, the Turks cook the food, the Irish are the waiters, the Greeks run the government, and the common language is Dutch.

  • By emphasizing the importance of a common language, we safeguard a proud legacy and help to ensure that America's future will be as great as her past.

    Past   America   Legacy  
  • It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this is a mistake. All that is needed is a readiness to learn from one's partner in the discussion, which includes a genuine wish to understand what he intends to say. If this readiness is there, the discussion wrighteous stupidityill be the more fruitful the more the partner's backgrounds differ.

    Karl Popper (2012). “In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years”, p.158, Routledge
  • The Soviet Union came apart along ethnic lines. The most important factor in this breakup was the disinclination of Slavic Ukraine to continue under a regime dominated by Slavic Russia. Yugoslavia came apart also, beginning with a brutal clash between Serbia and Croatia, here again 'nations' with only the smallest differences in genealogy; with, indeed, practically a common language. Ethnic conflict does not require great differences; small will do.

  • We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

    Fashion   Men   Together  
  • Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

    Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press
  • Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is common to you, me, and everybody.

    T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.78, Psychology Press
  • America is an open society, more open than any other in the world. People of every race, of every color, of every culture are welcomed here to create a new life for themselves and their families. And what do these people who enter into the American mainstream have in common? English, our shared common language.

    Race   Color   America  
  • English, our common language, binds our diverse people.

  • Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

  • The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.

  • America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

  • We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.

    Country   Ghetto   People  
    "Truth Squad: Did Gingrich refer to Spanish as 'ghetto' language?", www.cnn.com. January 27, 2012.
  • I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

    "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.
  • Language is by its very nature a communal thing.

    T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.78, Psychology Press
  • Most new movements start this way: hundreds or thousands of individuals and groups, working in different fields and different locations, start thinking about change using a common language, without necessarily recognizing those shared values. You just start following your own vector, propelled along by people in your immediate vicinity. And then one day, you look up and realize that all those individual trajectories have turned into a wave.

  • Art as language....in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.

    Art   Messages   Common  
  • Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

  • We are all American. If we believe that we are Americans, if we believe that what binds us together is what we have in common, then it must include the common language, and that common tongue is English.

  • In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life, but a-x. Hence mathematical language has great advantages over the common language.

    Life   Math   Lines  
  • The language of the heart is mankind's main common language.

    Heart   Common   Language  
    "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.
  • He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and play. It didn't matter what key or tempo or what melody, they would keep on playing through their discordance until they found a common language.

    Keys   Play   Circles  
    Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.169, A&C Black
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