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The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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✓Similar Perspectives

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

— Joseph Brodsky

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

— Siri Hustvedt

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

Less is always more. The best language is silence. We live in a time of a terrible inflation of words, and it is worse than the inflation of money.

— Eduardo Galeano

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

— Edward Sapir

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

— David Crystal

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

— Joshua Foer

A different language is a different vision of life.

— Federico Fellini

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.

— Jan Chipchase

✗Opposing Perspectives

As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.

— Edward Sapir