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Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

There are times when the power of language is not the power that is needed.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

We - we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around.

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.