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What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin are already trustless - any machine can accept it from any other, securely. They are (nearly) free. They are… — Naval Ravikant Copy Share Image
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Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
I sing only in Meronian - my own language - but there are also elements of English and Finnish languages in our… — Jussi Lehtisalo Copy Share Image
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There are about 50 or 60 recommendations [in "Win"] for how to communicate, not just the words themselves. All of them had… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
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Contemporary poetry ... tries to transform the sign back into meaning: its ideal, ultimately, would be to reach not the meaning of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
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“Although the repetition of a word or phrase is a preparatory practice and is itself not meditation, choosing a word or phrase… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
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I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
I didn't have many friends. I was very shy ... And, then, even worse, when I was 14 I became Gothic. I… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
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Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
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The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
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“And Dimble, who had been sitting with his face drawn, and rather white, between the white faces of the two women, and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Format is just the language. Content is the only thing that is important. Form is like handwriting. Whether you write in a… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
I confess that I have not cleared a path through all seven hundred pages, I confess to having examined only bits and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
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No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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