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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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Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men that comes…
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There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not…
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Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success
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Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and…
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Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life
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A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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While the (America's) Cup is yachting's Holy Grail, it has also come to represent the ultimate test in 'the game of life.'…
— Dennis Conner
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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…
— Charlton Laird
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The essential ingredients for relationship are affection and commitment.
— Robert A. Johnson
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What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give…
— Benjamin Franklin Fairless
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power... Military success is not sufficient to win: economic development, institution-building and the rule of law, promoting internal reconciliation, good governance, providing…
— Robert M. Gates
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I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.
— Edward Herrmann
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