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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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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history.…
— George H. W. Bush
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We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to…
— Nikolay Davydenko
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He, who has blended the useful with the sweet, has gained every point .
— Horace
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It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.
— Andre Agassi
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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
— Horace
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If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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I knew I could play well on the grass, but I really played so well today. I knew exactly what I had…
— Petra Kvitova
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The 'environmental crisis' has happened because the human household or economy is in conflict at almost every point with the household of…
— Wendell Berry
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In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to…
— Albert Einstein
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Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe,…
— Archibald MacLeish
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But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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