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If language is intimately related to being human, then when we study language we are, to a remarkable degree, studying human nature.
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Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.
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Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but…
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Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.
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Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can…
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Quite naturally, scholars assumed that Latin grammar was not merely Latin grammar, but that it was grammar itself. They borrowed it and…
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The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures…
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Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.
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You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it,…
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Babies and language are the essential ingredients of civilization, and speakers of language no more know where it came from than babies…
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The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to…
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Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only…
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable.…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
— Aaron Carter
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I believe in standardizing automobiles, not human beings.
— Albert Einstein
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How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened,…
— Edith Wharton
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And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and…
— Ann Rinaldi
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Creativity is our birthright. It is an integral part of being human, as basic as walking, talking and thinking.
— John Daido Loori
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Religion has endured since the dawn of human consciousness precisely because it encompasses so much of being human. No idea has endured…
— Robert Winston
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Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen…
— Isaiah Berlin
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The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.
— Konrad Lorenz
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Attempting to satisfy the passions that rage inside us and the longings that motivate us, we invent spirituality, lean on political solutions,…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.
— Stephen Levine
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