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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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A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a…
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one…
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There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.
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Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be…
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On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of…
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And I'm still alive. That's what I have to focus on. Because I want to live. Even now I can't let myself…
— Cheryl Rainfield
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There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave, courageous. The…
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There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away.…
— Graham Swift
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What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.
— Edward Sapir
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The players get no respect around here. They (the Yankees) give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and…
— Don Mattingly
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The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go…
— Bear Grylls
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Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another…
— Andre Weil
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