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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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'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year…
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A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated…
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Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for…
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Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their…
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Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.
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The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools…
— Benjamin Rush
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A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he or she…
— Bruce Jenner
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Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.
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Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random…
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In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out…
— Joseph Dalton Hooker
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[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less…
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
— Samuel Richardson
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