It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. ― Dalai Lama XIV

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Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

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Smiles are the language of love. - David Hare

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. — The Dalai Lama

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What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us. -Terence McKenna

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Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

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Where words fail, music speaks.

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Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited. - Robert Lepage

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I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

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