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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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Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole,…
— Annie Besant
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My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the…
— Ibn Arabi
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The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the…
— Robert Collier
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Every form of life is sacred. It is not possible to have an activity that is not sacred...Coming to see everything as…
— Gary Zukav
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...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had…
— John Bagot Glubb
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Every form is a base for color, every color is the attribute of a form.
— Victor Vasarely
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No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to…
— Harold Laski
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Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has…
— Joseph Goebbels
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My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred.
— Albert Einstein
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No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.... There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that…
— Samuel Johnson
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