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Actual Quotes by Alfred Korzybski
- If we, who live outside asylums, act as if we lived in a fictitious world- that is to say, if we are consistent with our…
- If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic…
- These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they…
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- I do love to eavesdrop. It's inspirational, not only for subject matter but for actual dialogue, the way people talk. — Lynda Barry
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- It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. — Ambrose Bierce
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- The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen
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