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The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is…
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We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices…
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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but…
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What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
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Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.
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A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the…
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A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative…
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A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
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A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping…
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As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness…
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Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural…
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Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they…
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Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable globes like…
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Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he…
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Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.
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You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll…
— Unknown Author
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people,
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Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these…
— George Washington
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Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which…
— Sigmund Freud
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Assign Yogi Berra to Cape Canaveral; he could handle any missile.
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